Meaning

6 senses

  1. (intransitive, literally)To lose heat, to get colder.

    I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

    остужа́тьostužátʹ, остуди́тьostudítʹ

    loose heat

  2. (literally, transitive)To make cooler, less warm.

    make cool or cooler

  3. (figuratively, intransitive)To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

    Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

    abkühlen

    остыва́тьostyvátʹ, осты́тьostýtʹ, успока́иватьсяuspokáivatʹsja

  4. (figuratively, transitive)To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

    охлажда́тьoxlaždátʹ, охлади́тьoxladítʹ

  5. (dated, slang, transitive)To kill, murder.

  6. (intransitive, slang)To relax, hang out.

Examples

1215 sentences

  1. The drinks looked cool and delicious.

    Напої виглядали прохолодними і смачними. — ChickenKiev

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  2. It's cool this morning, isn't it?

    Прохолодно сьогодні рано, еге? — aandrusiak

    ruСегодня утром прохладно, не так ли? — nami

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  3. The water is nice and cool.

    Вода приємна і прохолодна. — uaspeaker

    ruВода приятная и прохладная. — Hellerick

    deDas Wasser ist angenehm kühl. — Manfredo

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  4. Tom is a pretty cool guy.

    Том — доволі непоганий хлопець. — deniko

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  5. I thought that was pretty cool.

    Я думав, було досить прикольно. — Anjy

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to make colder (literally):
to become less intense, e.g. less amicable:
to make less intense, e.g. less amicable:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to become less intense, e.g. less amicable:

Origin

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from P

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).

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Forms

cools, cooling, cooled, cooled
Base formcool · to cool
3rd person singularcools
Present participlecooling
Past simplecooled
Past participlecooled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycool
he, she, itcools

Past simpleLesson

all personscooled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cool

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

6 synonyms
chillC1cool downrefrigeratedeheatbool
Close in meaning

Antonyms

4 antonyms
warmB1warm upheatB1heat up

Word family

20 related words
Relatedcoolercoolantcooling
Derivedovercoolaftercoolcoolablecool downcooling cardcooling centercool itcool offcool outhydrocoolintercoolprecoolrecoolself-coolingsodium-cooledsubcoolundercool

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • pretty cool
  • really cool
  • was pretty cool
  • was really cool
  • kind of cool
  • a pretty cool
  • pretty cool guy
  • was so cool
  • keep my cool
  • as cool as
  • nice and cool
  • cool guy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cookieA1cookoutcookwarecoolerA2coollycoolness

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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