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cool

/kul/ verbe B2

En français : refroidir, rafraichir

  1. To lose heat, to get colder. (intransitive) · I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
  2. To make cooler, less warm. (transitive)
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. (figuratively, intransitive) · Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. (figuratively, transitive)
  5. To kill, murder. (dated, slang, transitive)
  6. To relax, hang out. (intransitive, slang)

He/she/it cools · Prétérit cooled · Participe passé cooled · Forme en -ing cooling

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
cool
He/she/it
cools
Prétérit
cooled
Participe passé
cooled
Forme en -ing
cooling

Dans la bibliothèque

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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 143 · C1
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
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 107 · C1
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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 12 · B2

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