quieting down
Noise gradually fading
Quieting down is the process of becoming calm and silent, or making someone else so.
A teacher quiets down a rowdy classroom; a crowd quiets down when the speaker approaches the microphone.
The phrase often applies to children or groups: It took a while to quiet the kids down after the sugar rush.
It can also describe situations settling: Things have finally quieted down at work.
- allayDiminish or relieve
- mollifyReduce anger or distress
- calmFree from agitation
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- sootheGently ease discomfort
hush · de-escalation · muffling · lull · sedate · stillness · serenity · subsiding · peacefulness · dampening · muting · settling · suppression · cessation · relaxed · subdue · slowing · composure
quieting downgetting louder
amplifying · blaring · roaring · clamoring · crescendoing
quieting downstirring up
Causing to activate
ramping up · getting worked up · revving up · heating up · escalating
quieting downescalating
Increasing by degrees
flaring up · erupting · blowing up · exploding · inciting
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