cools

Verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

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.

   Synonyms:

   cool down

   Antonyms:

   warm, warm up, heat, heat up

2. (literally, transitive) To make cooler, less warm.
   • Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:24

   Synonyms:

   chill, cool down, refrigerate, deheat

   Antonyms:

   warm, warm up, heat, heat up

3. (figuratively, intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
   • Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
   • We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
5. (dated, slang, transitive) To kill, murder.
   • Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I...1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
6. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To relax, hang out.
   • Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out1986, “6 in the Mornin'”performed by Ice-T

   Synonyms:

   bool

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