cool down

1. See cool off , def. 2.

2. Effect a lower temperature, especially of the body following vigorous exercise. For example, After a race the coach makes the entire team do stretches to cool down , or Let's take a dip to cool off . These phrases date from a.d. 1000 with reference to the weather or cooking (as in First let the eggs cool off ). The first gained renewed currency with the exercise boom of the late 1900s.

Idioms and Phrases

Also, cool off .

Example Sentences

By keeping everything cool down there—including your skivvies.

From The Daily Beast

A: We used laser light to cool down atoms to very, very low temperatures.

From The Daily Beast

The mission to cool down the reactors began in earnest on the 19th.

From The Daily Beast

The fuel has to cool down to the point where the water that's cooling it is below the boiling point.

From The Daily Beast

Still other sites have chosen to give commenters a time-out to allow tempers to cool down.

From The Daily Beast

"On a warm summer's day it's delightfully cool down here," Mr. Meadow Mouse murmured.

From Project Gutenberg

Then my friends began to cool down, and draw off, under shelter of occasional volleys, into silence and abysmal reverie.

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This council is called tarvi, and tries to cool down the hot-headed fancies of the dhanis, their brigand lords.

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Liquefy eight tubes of gelatine-agar and place them in the water-bath at 42° C, and cool down to that temperature.

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Then let the boiler cool down before putting in fresh water.

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