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simmer down

simmer down verb: to decrease in intensity of anger, agitation, or excitement.

Verb

simmer down (third-person singular simple present simmers down, present participle simmering down, simple past and past participle simmered down)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To decrease in intensity of anger, agitation, or excitement.
    • You need to simmer down and stop yelling at me.
    • It took a while for the heated debate to simmer down and for people to start listening to each other.
    Antonyms:
    simmer up

simmer down meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

simmer down in Bengali

রাগ, উত্তেজনা, উচ্ছ্বাসের তীব্রতা হ্রাস পাওয়া

simmer down in Malayalam

cool off, cool down, become less angry
ആറുക, തണുക്കുക, കോപം ശമിക്കുക, കോപം അടങ്ങുക, ശമിക്കുക, സമാധാനിക്കുക

Synonyms of simmer down

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of simmer down

Forms of simmer down

third-person singular presentsimmers down
present participlesimmering down
past participlesimmered down
pastsimmered down

Questions about simmer down

What does simmer down mean?
Simmer down means to decrease in intensity of anger, agitation, or excitement.
What is simmer down in Bengali?
Simmer down in Bengali is রাগ, উত্তেজনা, উচ্ছ্বাসের তীব্রতা হ্রাস পাওয়া. See Simmer down meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is simmer down?
Simmer down is a verb.
What is the past tense of simmer down?
The past tense of simmer down is simmered down.

Words near simmer down in the dictionary

  1. Simmentalers
  2. Simmentals
  3. Simmenthaler
  4. Simmenthalers
  5. simmer
  6. simmer down
  7. simmer up
  8. simmered
  9. simmered down
  10. simmered up
  11. simmerer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: simmer down (page history and authors); simmer down (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); simmer down (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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