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quieten

/ˈkwaɪ.ə.tən/

quieten verb: to make quiet.

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Verb

quieten (third-person singular simple present quietens, present participle quietening, simple past and past participle quietened)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, transitive) To make quiet.
    • quieten the class
    • Take deep, deep breaths and quieten your mind while you contemplate what has been revealed within my latest journallings to you.2013, Dianne Pegler, The Sacred Order of the Magi, page 149
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, intransitive) To become quiet.
    • quieten down please, the speaker is going to start.

quieten meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

quieten in Hindi

to quieten, silence
चुप करना cup karnā

quieten in Tamil

அமைதிப்படுத்து

quieten in Urdu

چپ ہونا, چپ کرنا, چپ کرانا

quieten in Malayalam

മിണ്ടാതിരിക്കുക, മൗനമാക്കുക, നിശ്ചലമാകുക
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quieten in Kannada
ಬಾಯ್ಕಟ್ಟು, ಬಾಯಿಕಟ್ಟು, ಬಾಯಿಬಡಿ, ಬಾಯ್ಬಡಿ

Forms of quieten

third-person singular presentquietens
present participlequietening
past participlequietened
pastquietened

Past tense of quieten: quietened

Origin of quieten

From quiet + -en (verbal suffix).

Words formed from quieten

Questions about quieten

What does quieten mean?
Quieten means to make quiet.
What is quieten in Hindi?
Quieten in Hindi is चुप करना (cup karnā). See Quieten meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is quieten?
Quieten is a verb.
How do you pronounce quieten?
Quieten is pronounced /ˈkwaɪ.ə.tən/.
What is the past tense of quieten?
The past tense of quieten is quietened.

Words near quieten in the dictionary

  1. quietage
  2. quietcation
  3. quietcations
  4. quieted
  5. quieted down
  6. quieten
  7. quieten down
  8. quietened
  9. quietened down
  10. quietener
  11. quieteners

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quieten (page history and authors); चुप करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); quieten (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quieten (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quieten (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quieten (Kannada 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.

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