Quieten
[KWAI-ih-tn]
Part of speech: verb
Origin: English, 18th century
1.
Make or become quiet and calm.
Examples of Quieten in a sentence
"My phone is plugged in across the bedroom so I have to get out of bed to quieten the alarm."
"Rodrigo finds it challenging to quieten his excitable students at the beginning of class."
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