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cool off

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  1. To decrease in temperature, activity, or temper. (intransitive) · You are getting a little too angry; you need to cool off.· The metal will take about three hours to cool off after the molding.
  2. To cause to decrease in temperature, activity or temper. (transitive) · At first he was very angry, but his friends managed to cool him off.
  3. To lose interest or enthusiasm [with on]. (intransitive)
  4. To be imprisoned. (intransitive) · He's cooling off in the state pen.
  5. To kill (someone). (slang, transitive)
  6. To wait for a furor to die down; to hide during a police manhunt. (intransitive, slang) · After doing the job, he went to the safehouse to cool off.
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Depend upon it, Marilla, she’ll cool off in a week or so and be ready enough to go back of her own accord, that’s what, while, if you were to make her go back right off, dear knows what freak or tantrum she’d take next and make more trouble than ever.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 122 · C1

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