(intransitive, idiomatic) To decrease in intensity of anger, agitation, or excitement.

(slang) To start a fight (sometimes with on).

To perform gentle exercise at the end of a training session before cooling off.

(idiomatic) To make more specific.

(idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.

(Sussex) the South Downs. / A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. / A surname.

(intransitive, US) To become quieter. / (transitive, US) To make someone or something become quieter. / (intransitive, transitive, US) To diminish in intensity.

(idiomatic) In the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.

(idiomatic) To the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.

(transitive, idiomatic) To betray, especially in a manner which causes serious difficulty for the one betrayed.