settle (sb) down
— phrasal verb with settle uk/ˈset.əl/us/ˈset̬.əl/verb
C2 to become quiet and calm, or to make someone become quiet and calm:
Come on all of you, stop talking and settle down please!
They settled down on the sofa to watch the film.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- relaxation
- settle
- simmer down
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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