Definition of "quiet down" [quiet down]

• To become quieter (verb)
• To reduce intensity of an activity. (verb)
• To make someone or something become quieter. (verb)

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• "Seventeen years of peace and quiet down the waterspout."
• "If we were all right here we are doing just what we should do: staying out of sight until things quiet down and that down-state man pulls out."
• "It took Dr. Darity a few minutes to get the room to quiet down again."