[
UK
/kwˈaɪətən/
]
VERB
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become quiet or quieter
The audience fell silent when the speaker entered -
cause to be quiet or not talk
Please silence the children in the church! -
make calm or still
quiet the dragons of worry and fear
How To Use quieten In A Sentence
- He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
- Every so often, the stones would quieten while a doctor would check the women's pulse.
- It is quietening down and people are getting off the street.
- In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
- I try to quieten her screeches of laughter by shaking her, to no avail.
- Can't you quieten those children down?
- Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
- The struggle for the pronunciation of our name will no doubt continue long after this fracking business has quietened down. Times, Sunday Times
- That restricted her family time, but the outstanding results she achieved quietened their mild complaints.
- Mr Lewis, the mechanic, for example, soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room.
