Word.ws English Dictionary

quiesced

quiesced is the simple past and past participle of quiesce.

Meaning of quiesce

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.

Questions about quiesced

What is quiesced the simple past and past participle of?
Quiesced is the simple past and past participle of quiesce.

Words near quiesced in the dictionary

  1. quids in
  2. quidsworth
  3. Quie syndrome
  4. quiesce
  5. quiesce time
  6. quiesced
  7. quiescence
  8. quiescences
  9. quiescency
  10. quiescent
  11. quiescently

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quiesced (page history and authors); quiesce (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:

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