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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
calm . - noun Plural form of
calm .
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Examples
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And swift tropic night smote the Arangi, as she alternately rolled in calms and heeled and plunged ahead in squalls under the lee of the cannibal island of Malaita.
CHAPTER V 2010
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And swift tropic night smote the Arangi, as she alternately rolled in calms and heeled and plunged ahead in squalls under the lee of the cannibal island of Malaita.
Chapter 5 1917
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But thereabouts the regular currents diverging to the north and south have formed a kind of lake of calms, which is sometimes known as the "Whirlpool of Fleurieu."
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866
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Matthew Lieberman at UCLA indicates that when people accurately attach a word to what they are feeling underneath their reactions, it lowers amygdala activation significantly which in term calms them and lessens their tendency to react in a "fight or flight" manner.
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Matthew Lieberman at UCLA indicates that when people accurately attach a word to what they are feeling underneath their reactions, it lowers amygdala activation significantly which in term calms them and lessens their tendency to react in a "fight or flight" manner.
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Matthew Lieberman at UCLA indicates that when people accurately attach a word to what they are feeling underneath their reactions, it lowers amygdala activation significantly which in term calms them and lessens their tendency to react in a "fight or flight" manner.
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Like The Incredible Hulk's heart monitor, the nametag calms me down.
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` ` Sometimes a change like that kind of calms everybody down, '' Fernandez said.
USATODAY.com 2008
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She kind of calms down a little bit, realizes that her mother is OK, but they still bring the ambulance along and then she was taken to the hospital, and apparently they were a little bit more serious than the daughter thought after she seemed OK, because they did keep her for 12 hours.
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Is it at that point in the storm where it comes and goes, where you'll go through a period of several minutes where it's really blowing and really uncomfortable, and then it kind of calms a bit, certainly doesn't calm?
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