cool
/kul/ verb B2- To lose heat, to get colder. · I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
- To make cooler, less warm.
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. · Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To kill, murder.
- To relax, hang out.
He/she/it cools · Past cooled · Past participle cooled · -ing form cooling
Verb forms
- Base form
- cool
- He/she/it
- cools
- Past
- cooled
- Past participle
- cooled
- -ing form
- cooling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and let it burn; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away.
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.
The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour.
Then she went back to the house, and having helped herself and Toto to a good drink of the cool, clear water, she set about making ready for the journey to the City of Emeralds.
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