verb
- transitive to calm, to still (to limit and lessen in motion and disturbance)
- transitive to calm, soothe, assuage, to ease, to appease, to quell, to allay, to settle, to relieve (to make lessen in intensity)
- figuratively, transitive to defuse (e.g. a situation or problem, tension or conflict, a crisis)
- figuratively, transitive to quench, to quell (one's thirst)
- figuratively, transitive to cool
- transitive to talk down, to talk off the ledge
- intransitive to subside, abate
- intransitive to steady (often used when talking to an animal one is riding like a horse)
- reflexive to calm down, to settle down, to quiet down, to calm oneself
- reflexive to cool off, to cool it, to chill, to chill out
- reflexive to subside