calmar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to calm, to still (to limit and lessen in motion and disturbance)
  2. (transitive) to calm, soothe, assuage, to ease, to appease, to quell, to allay, to settle, to relieve (to make lessen in intensity)
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to defuse (e.g. a situation or problem, tension or conflict, a crisis)
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to quench, to quell (one's thirst)
  5. (figuratively, transitive) to cool
  6. (transitive) to talk down, to talk off the ledge
  7. (intransitive) to subside, abate
  8. (intransitive) to steady (often used when talking to an animal one is riding like a horse)
  9. (reflexive) to calm down, to settle down, to quiet down, to calm oneself
  10. (reflexive) to cool off, to cool it, to chill, to chill out
  11. (reflexive) to subside

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
cal‧mar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kalˈmaɾ/
Etymology

From calma + -ar.

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