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Quiet down   /kwˈaɪət daʊn/   Listen
Quiet down

verb
1.
Become quiet or quieter.  Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quieten.





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"Quiet down" Quotes from Famous Books



... startled to hear someone gently open that back door, then take off boots and begin to softly ascend the stairs, which stopped only the width of a narrow hall from my room. I have been told that I said in trembling tones, "You're trying to keep pretty quiet down there." Next moment I was at the head of the stairs; saw a man whom I did not recognize on the last step but one. I struck a heavy blow on his chest, saying, "Go down, sir," and down he tumbled all the way, his boots ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
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... almost immediately the room began to fill with tobacco smoke. Every one seemed to be talking and laughing at once, in the liveliest spirit of good fellowship. They joked from table to table, and sometimes the whole room would quiet down while some one told a joke, which invariably wound up with ...
— The Friendly Road - New Adventures in Contentment • (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
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... for Mr. Todd to quiet down sufficiently to tell his story coherently. He was an humble laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. He had gleaned among the poorest of the native population in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro until his health suffered, and had ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
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... aroused by these stirring occurrences began to quiet down towards the approaching Fall, when the Canadian ship of state was again under full sail, heading for the waters of prosperity. Since then our political history has been so intimately connected with great inventions and discoveries, that a narration ...
— The Dominion in 1983 • Ralph Centennius
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... girl to ask that when you learn that Dr. Devoe is going to tackle them with the police if they don't quiet down by midnight." ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
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... Jones. "Might as well quiet down and confess. Ease up a little on him, Bert. Take a look at that ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Words linked to "Quiet down" :   quiesce, pipe down, louden, still, change intensity, shut up, silence, hush up, quiet, quieten


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