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Verb quiet has 2 senses
- quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
--1 is one way to change intensity
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still - make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
--2 is one way to comfort, soothe, console, solace
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to quiet Sue
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