Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make calm:
Русский
By meaning 2
to make calm:
to become calm:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make calm:

Examples

697 sentences

  1. Tom has calmed down a bit.

    Том трохи заспокоївся. — deniko

    ruТом немного успокоился. — yatomoya

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  2. Let's calm down.

    Давайте заспокоїмося. — shanghainese

    ruДавайте успокоимся. — odexed

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  3. I'll answer you when you've calmed down.

    Я дам тобі відповідь, коли ти заспокоїшся. — deniko

    ruЯ отвечу тебе, когда ты успокоишься. — igor_chubin

    deIch werde dir antworten, wenn du dich beruhigt hast. — MUIRIEL

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Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To make calm.

    to calm a crying baby

    to calm the passions

    beruhigen, ruhig stellen

    успока́иватьuspokáivatʹ, успоко́итьuspokóitʹ

    заспоко́юватиzaspokójuvaty, заспоко́їтиzaspokójity

  2. (intransitive)To become calm.

    успока́иватьсяuspokáivatʹsja, успокои́тьсяuspokoítʹsja

More definitions
  • make calm or still
  • make steady
  • become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
  • cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

Origin

From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma

From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).

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Forms

calms, calming, calmed, calmed

regular · Lesson

Base formcalm · to calm
3rd person singularcalms
Present participlecalming
Past simplecalmed
Past participlecalmed

Tenses

calm · calmed · will calm · have calmed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycalm
he, she, itcalms

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave calmed
he, she, ithas calmed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill calm

Past simpleLesson

all personscalmed

Synonyms

16 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms
agitateexcite

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcalm down

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

5 patterns
  • trying to calm
  • has calmed down
  • just calm down
  • need to calm
  • please calm down

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
calligraphycallousC2calluscalmlyB2calmnessB1caloric

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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