quieten meaning

quieten as a verb

1. cause to be quiet or not talk
   • Please silence the children in the church!

   Synonyms: hush, silence, still, shut up, hush up

   Opposite: louden

   Type of: suppress

   Kinds: shush, lull, shout down, gag

2. become quiet or quieter
   • The audience fell silent when the speaker entered

   Synonyms: hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down

   Opposite: louden

   Type of: change intensity

3. make calm or still
   • quiet the dragons of worry and fear

   Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, lull, still

   Type of: comfort

   Kinds: lull, compose, pacify, reassure

quieten in a sentence

• Thus money in circulation drops, and price escalation quietens down.
• Quieten down, or you'll be out on your ear.
• Let's wait until things quieten down.
• The Bouteflika regime threw money around for two decades to quieten any social unrest.
• Everything quietens down at night.