quieten — OET

quieten

verb British

1 the teacher had to stop to quieten the children down:

silence, make quieter, hush, shush, quiet, still;

informal shut up.

2 her travelling companions had quietened:

fall silent, stop talking, break off, become quiet, quieten down, grow silent, shush, hold one's tongue;

informal shut up, clam up, shut it, pipe down, shut one's mouth/face/trap, put a sock in it, button one's lip, button it, cut the cackle;

British, informal wrap up;

North American, informal save it.

3 he tried using lithium salts to quieten manic patients:

calm, calm down, pacify, soothe, subdue, tranquillize, cool, content, silence, relax, comfort, compose.

4 Dexter yearned for a cigarette and could not quieten the urge:

allay, appease, assuage, mollify, palliate, ease, lessen, reduce, abate, mitigate, moderate, stifle, dull, deaden, lull, temper, subjugate, repress, quell, quash, overcome, rise above.

quieten Oxford Dictionary of English