different between quieten vs quieter
quieten
English
Etymology
From quiet +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwa?.?.t?n/
Verb
quieten (third-person singular simple present quietens, present participle quietening, simple past and past participle quietened)
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
Usage notes
- Not very common in US English, where the verb quiet is often preferred.
Translations
Anagrams
- queen it
Spanish
Verb
quieten
- Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of quietar.
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of quietar.
- Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of quietar.
quieten From the web:
- quieten meaning
- what does quiet mean
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- what does quieten down
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- quieten definition
quieter
English
Etymology
quiet +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwa?.?.t?/
Adjective
quieter
- comparative form of quiet: more quiet
Noun
quieter (plural quieters)
- One who quiets.
- 2001, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (page 269)
- The motives that were previously so powerful now lose their force, and instead of them, the complete knowledge of the real nature of the world, acting as a quieter of the will, produces resignation […]
- 2001, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (page 269)
Anagrams
- requite
Latin
Verb
qui?ter
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of qui?tor
quieter From the web:
- what quiet means
- what quiets noisy lifters
- what quiets down the myometrium
- what quiet place 2
- what quieted mrs. schächter
- what quiets a cough
- watch quiet place
- what quiets tinnitus
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