(n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
(n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
(n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
(super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
(super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(4) The girl was calmed down and was taken to hospital.
(5) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(6) She stayed calm during the upsetting search that led to Cynthia, who turned out to be flaky, chain-smoking and white (played by Brenda Blethyn).
(7) Thokozile Masipa, a 68-year-old former journalist who was only the second black woman to be appointed to the high court, was praised for her calm authority despite her controversial original verdict.
(8) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
(9) Statistical data should be enriched by qualitative information for decision-making purposes: the calm rationality of one set of people discussing the problems of others should be balanced by the fire of people describing their own experiences.
(10) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(11) I can calmly say that his future will still be at Juventus, where he feels very happy,” he parped.
(12) The surreal air of calm surrounding Spain's bond market shows no signs of dissipating.
(13) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(14) On the train journey to court I will usually chat to the family to try and help them remain calm before the day ahead.
(15) It's a great spot for swimming, with clear, calm waters and a bathing raft.
(16) "We hope all relevant parties will do that which benefits peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, hope all sides will respond calmly and avoid exacerbating the situation," ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
(17) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
(18) The CCTV images released by police are haunting as we watch an individual who appears calm and focused throughout.
(19) Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, due to visit Europe this week, appealed for calm amid the rioting.
(20) The pressure on Cameron followed a day of rising tensions in Birmingham as community leaders and police appealed for calm following the death of Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30 and Abdul Musavir, 31.
Reassure
Definition:
(v. t.) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
(v. t.) To reinsure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) On taking advice from the security and policing services, I gave a broad reassurance that those communities would not be at risk.
(3) Reassuring findings were the absence of weight loss and serious unwanted effects from d-fenfluramine.
(4) Organic investigation must be proposed to these patients when they are motivated and occasionally in obviously "psychological" patients in order to reassure him that all of the organic factors "function correctly".
(5) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
(6) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
(7) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(8) Educating them about the physiology of the human nervous system can provide them with reassurance.
(9) But Ed Miliband needs to reassure David and his team and recognise that their approach won almost half the votes."
(10) So if this amendment is selected, we’ll accept it.” But members of the official campaign to leave the EU, Vote Leave, said they were not reassured by the statement.
(11) Overall, the findings provide some welcome reassurance about the accuracy and reliability of pain reports from memory.
(12) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(13) These results should be reassuring to patients exposed to 131I in medical practice and to most individuals exposed to the fall-out from the Chernobyl accident.
(14) But it wasn't O'Neal who requested the article's suppression; according to Google's UK head of communications, Peter Barron, it was "an ordinary member of the public who left a comment on Robert's blog" and he reassured us that "If you search for Merrill Lynch [the blog] will appear.
(15) In conclusion, the results of this study, the major interest of which lies in the opportunity of drawing up an overall pattern of risk for various digestive neoplasms, offer further reassurance as regards the effects of coffee on digestive tract carcinogenesis.
(16) Also, fetal echocardiography provided reassurance of cardiac normality in cases with familial and maternal risk factors for congenital heart disease.
(17) Younger children may worry about genital mutilation, and should be reassured.
(18) Based on reassuring monocyte monolayer assay results, the pregnancy was followed without invasive testing.
(19) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(20) Hollington was named an hour after the MoD announced the death of another marine, killed in an explosion in Sangin yesterday while on a "reassurance patrol".