Definition of "quieted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of quiet. (verb)

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• "Once again, as if by executive order, bonds of community were declared to be strong and enduring, the divisions and contradictions within quieted by the uniquely menacing threat from without."
• "He crossed the stile, and with a word quieted Sally's dog as it rose to challenge him, and then went with him, licking his hand."
• "The word quieted him, and with a gasp his mind seemed to change at once."