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quieteningverbpresent participle of quietenchiefly British to free from distress or disturbancethe nanny tried to quieten the children with assurances that help was on its way becalming, calming, composing, lullabying, lulling, quieting, salving, settling, soothing, stilling, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) appeasing, conciliating, hushing, mollifying, pacifying, placatingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, laying, mitigating, quelling, relaxing, relieving, solacingnarcotizing, sedating, stupefying agitating, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, keying (up), perturbing, upsetting, vexing aggravating, heightening, intensifyingarousing, exciting, fomenting, inciting, rousing, stirring (up), working up to stop the noise or speech ofone young chap was trying to quieten down the group dumbing, extinguishing, hushing, muting, quelling, quieting, settling, shushing, shutting up, silencing, squelching, stilling agitating, stirring |