calm
/kɑm/ verb C2- To make calm. · to calm a crying baby· to calm the passions
- To become calm.
He/she/it calms · Past calmed · Past participle calmed · -ing form calming
Verb forms
- Base form
- calm
- He/she/it
- calms
- Past
- calmed
- Past participle
- calmed
- -ing form
- calming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She hastened to restore her sensations to their normal calm by inculcating a moral.
“You can calm down then, because you’re not going.
Anne wept then, but later on, when she went upstairs and looked in the glass, she was calm with despair.
I am pretty near crazy as it is, but you’re as calm and cool as a spring evening.”
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