calmar
Meaning
- (transitive) to calm, to still (to limit and lessen in motion and disturbance)
- (transitive) to calm, soothe, assuage, to ease, to appease, to quell, to allay, to settle, to relieve (to make lessen in intensity)
- (figuratively, transitive) to defuse (e.g. a situation or problem, tension or conflict, a crisis)
- (figuratively, transitive) to quench, to quell (one's thirst)
- (figuratively, transitive) to cool
- (transitive) to talk down, to talk off the ledge
- (intransitive) to subside, abate
- (intransitive) to steady (often used when talking to an animal one is riding like a horse)
- (reflexive) to calm down, to settle down, to quiet down, to calm oneself
- (reflexive) to cool off, to cool it, to chill, to chill out
- (reflexive) to subside
Concepts
becalm
quiten
Synonyms
hacer respirar
exalar
calmar un dolor
hacer sanar
hacer descansar
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cal‧mar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kalˈmaɾ/
Etymology
From calma + -ar.
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