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** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
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1. [en] To decrease in intensity of anger , agitation , or excitement .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1870 | author=w:Mark Twain | title=Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again | section=letter 4
|passage="Silence! Now ye had better go slow, my good fellow. This is two or
three times you've tried to get off some of your insolence. Lip won't do
here. You've got to SIMMER DOWN."}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1910 | author=w:Stewart Edward White | title=The Rules of the Game | chapter=73
|passage=The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have
been expected to SIMMER DOWN, to die away slowly.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 30 2003 | author=Nazila Fathi | title=British Minister Presses Iran To Allow Nuclear Inspections | titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/world/british-minister-presses-iran-to-allow-nuclear-inspections.html | journal=New York Times | accessdate=9 Apr 2009
|passage=Although the street demonstrations have SIMMERED DOWN, protests have
continued in other forms.}}
**** Translations
[to become less angry]
- German: [de] , [de] [reflexive] , [de] [reflexive]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
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