"quieten" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something has become quiet, either physically or metaphorically. For example: The streets were quietened when the protests suddenly ceased.
Certainly, there is also a sombre element to a story about a man hoping to solve a problem largely caused by human greed, yet unable to quieten his own appetites.
I wanted to say 'hi' at the beginning but I thought: 'Oh, I can't, it's about to start in a minute.' So I thought: 'I'll get the chance to see him at the end, things will quieten down and I'll say hello.' Then he won and got dragged off to do God knows how many interviews.
As the economy rebounds and public outrage subsides, the clamour for change will quieten.
Many western firms fear this expansion will cut into their profits.Perhaps with Mr Chernomyrdin's return to power, the row between the government and the energy bosses will quieten down.
The region did indeed quieten down a bit, but Palestinian activists rejected the call, seeing it as an Israeli-inspired ruse to spike an Arab summit set to take place in Cairo.See article: Can it fly?Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, paid a three-day visit to Iraq.
These are all good reasons to quieten protectionist rhetoric though if the lessons of the Depression cannot do that, would anything else succeed?*"The Challenge of Reducing International Trade and Migration Barriers".
Is it:(a) hypnotising monkeys to quieten their brains before they are scanned; (b) modelling the movement of magma in the earth's mantle; (c) generating random numbers.27 Like people in other professions, scientists need standards.
A framework agreement would be only a stepping stone, albeit a big one, to a final settlement.At a Likud parliamentary caucus on January 6th, he sought to quieten his restless flock by insisting Israel must keep the holy sites of Hebron, the West Bank's largest city, along with strategic heights such as Beit Aryeh, overlooking Israel's main airport, and low places such as the Jordan Valley.
He favoured more democracy and economic improvements, but he would not allow the chaos to spread.Since the one thing the rioters seemed to agree on is that he had delighted them long enough after 30 years on the presidential throne, and should depart for Saudi Arabia, it is impossible to know whether his decision to brazen it out will quieten or inflame the situation.
Several teams are searching for radio pulses in the moments when the X-ray pulses from SAX J1808.4-3658 quieten down the X-rays seem to flare up for a month or two at a time, and then subside.
HAULED back from beyond the brink by Bill Clinton and Kofi Annan, Israelis and Palestinians began at mid-week to quieten the bloody, three-week-old "Al Aqsa intifada".
