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English
Verb
calm down (third-person singular simple present calms down, present participle calming down, simple past and past participle calmed down)
- (intransitive) To become less excited, intense, or angry.
- Calm down before you hurt somebody.
- (transitive) To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry.
Synonyms
- (to become less excited): be still my heart, chill, chill out, chillax, pull in one's horns, relax, unwind
- (to cause become less excited): chill out, relax, hose down, cool one's jets, slow one's roll
Translations
To become less excited
- Arabic: أَهْدَأَ (ʔahdaʔa), هَدَّأَ (haddaʔa)
- Moroccan Arabic: تهدن (thaddan)
- Armenian: հանգստանալ (hy) (hangstanal)
- Azerbaijani: sakitləşmək, rahatlaşmaq
- Basque: lasaitu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 冷靜下來／冷静下来 (lěngjìng xiàlai), 平靜下來／平静下来 (píngjìng xiàlai)
- Dutch: bedaren (nl)
- Finnish: rauhoittua (fi), tyyntyä (fi)
- French: se calmer (fr), s’apaiser (fr)
- Galician: calmar (gl), acougar (gl), sosegar, apoudigar
- German: sich beruhigen (de)
- Hebrew: נרגע (nirgá)
- Hungarian: megnyugszik (hu), lecsillapodik (hu)
- Ingrian: vaiketa
- Italian: calmarsi (it), tranquillizzarsi (it), tranquillarsi (uncommon)
- Japanese: 落ち着く (ja) (おちつく, ochitsuku)
- Latin: mītēscō
- Macedonian: се смирува impf (se smiruva), се смири pf (se smiri)
- Maori: whakamahuru
- Ngazidja Comorian: utrulia
- Ottoman Turkish: دولنمك (dölenmek), ساكنلنمك (sakinlenmek)
- Polish: uspokajać się impf, uspokoić się pf
- Portuguese: acalmar-se
- Romanian: astâmpăra (ro)
- Russian: успока́иваться (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹsja), успоко́иться (ru) pf (uspokóitʹsja), унима́ться (ru) impf (unimátʹsja), уня́ться (ru) pf (unjátʹsja)
- Spanish: calmarse (es), tranquilizarse (es)
- Swedish: lugna ner sig (sv), chilla (sv) (slang)
- Turkish: sakinleşmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: заспоко́юватися impf (zaspokójuvatysja), заспоко́їтися pf (zaspokójitysja)
- Walloon: si rapåjhî (wa), si rapåjhter (wa)
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To cause to become less excited
- Arabic: أَهْدَأَ (ʔahdaʔa), هَدَّأَ (haddaʔa)
- Armenian: հանգստացնել (hy) (hangstacʻnel)
- Azerbaijani: sakitləşdirmək, rahatlaşdırmaq
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 使平靜／使平静 (zh) (shǐ píngjìng), 使冷靜／使冷静 (zh) (shǐ lěngjìng)
- Danish: berolige
- Finnish: rauhoittaa (fi), tyynnytellä (fi)
- French: calmer (fr), tranquilliser (fr), apaiser (fr)
- Galician: calmar (gl)
- German: beruhigen (de)
- Hebrew: הִרְגִּיעַ (hirgía)
- Hungarian: megnyugtat (hu), lecsillapít (hu)
- Ingrian: vaikenoittaa
- Italian: calmare (it), tranquillizzare (it)
- Japanese: (causative form) 落ち着かせる (ja) (おちつかせる, ochitsukaseru)
- Latin: mītēscō
- Maori: whakamahuru
- Polish: uspokajać (pl) impf, uspokoić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: acalmar (pt)
- Russian: успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ), успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ), умиротворя́ть (ru) impf (umirotvorjátʹ), умиротвори́ть (ru) pf (umirotvorítʹ)
- Spanish: calmar (es), tranquilizar (es)
- Swedish: lugna ner (sv)
- Turkish: sakinleştirmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: заспоко́ювати impf (zaspokójuvaty), заспоко́їти pf (zaspokójity)
- Walloon: rapåjhî (wa), rapåjhter (wa), rapwairi (wa)
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