Usually means: Making something less noisy, calm.
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  1. quietening: Merriam-Webster
  2. quietening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quietening: Vocabulary.com
  4. quietening: Wordnik
  5. quietening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quietening: Wiktionary
  7. quietening: Dictionary.com
  8. quietening: Rhymezone
  9. quietening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. quietening: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quietening)

▸ noun:  The act of making something quieter.

Similar:
unalarming, calming, lulling, quieting, tranquillization, silencing, quelling, quiescence, soundproofing, stilling, more...

Types:
hushing, shushing, muffling, silencing, drowning out, more...

Phrases:
quietening down, more...

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Similar:
unalarming, calming, lulling, quieting, tranquillization, silencing, quelling, quiescence, soundproofing, stilling, more...

Types:
hushing, shushing, muffling, silencing, drowning out, more...

Phrases:
quietening down, more...



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