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quieten
verb as in silence
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After two weeks of taking 270mg a day, she says the noise in her head started to quieten.
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The anxiety and obligations quietened as the brain was flooded with feel-good chemicals.
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A desire to quieten the notoriously boisterous New York fans was one reason.
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Certainly Donald wants his golfers to get off to a fast start to try to quieten what are expected to be vociferous home fans.
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It is traditionally the role of the visiting team to quieten the home crowd in encounters such as this.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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