Word.ws English Dictionary

quiesce

/kwiˈɛs/

quiesce verb: to become quiet or quieter.

Verb

quiesce (third-person singular simple present quiesces, present participle quiescing, simple past and past participle quiesced)

  1. (intransitive) To become quiet or quieter.
  2. (transitive) To make temporarily inactive or disabled.
  3. (transitive) To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.

quiesce meaning in Urdu and Bengali

quiesce in Urdu

خاموش ہو جانا, ساکن ہونا

quiesce in Bengali

শান্ত, আরও শান্ত হওয়া, সাময়িকভাবে নিষ্ক্রিয়, অক্ষম করা, কার্যক্রম স্থগিত করা, কমানো

Forms of quiesce

third-person singular presentquiesces
present participlequiescing
past participlequiesced
pastquiesced

Origin of quiesce

Borrowed from Latin quiēscō ("I rest, repose, become quiet").

Words formed from quiesce

Questions about quiesce

What does quiesce mean?
Quiesce means to become quiet or quieter.
What is quiesce in Urdu?
Quiesce in Urdu is خاموش ہو جانا, ساکن ہونا. See Quiesce meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is quiesce?
Quiesce is a verb.
How do you pronounce quiesce?
Quiesce is pronounced /kwiˈɛs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of quiesce?
The past tense of quiesce is quiesced.

Words near quiesce in the dictionary

  1. quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
  2. quids
  3. quids in
  4. quidsworth
  5. Quie syndrome
  6. quiesce
  7. quiesce time
  8. quiesced
  9. quiescence
  10. quiescences
  11. quiescency

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quiesce (page history and authors); quiesce (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quiesce (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quiesce.wav.

Cite this entry: “quiesce.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quiesce. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.