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Cool off

verb

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation. Synonyms: calm, calm down, chill out, cool it, settle down, simmer down. "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."

Lose intensity. Synonyms: cool, cool down.

Feel less enamoured of something or somebody.

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"Cool off" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tree down in that little hollow. I think the water's better and colder than the pump water, but you can have either you like. Perhaps, though, you'd like a glass of milk. But there, you just wait, I know something better than that. Just set down and cool off while I fetch something for you to take back. Don't take a drink till you set awhile; ...

— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard

... steps and cool off a little," suggested Charley. "You know you can always kill Crazy Dutch if you want to. He's always around. He's really a dear old man when you come to know him. He's helped me out here many a time when Dick's been sick or away." She ...

— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... dollars. I was doing relief work at the Presidio, waiting for the vaults to cool off—I had a lot of paper money in a box there—and for the insurance companies to pay—and for the man who looked after my affairs to get well: he'd been hurt in the earthquake. But he didn't get well: he had a stroke, instead, and ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various

Words linked to "Cool off" : change, turn, change state, feel, experience