CALMED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

calmed

verb

past tense of calm

as in soothed

to free from distress or disturbance the president's reassuring words did much to calm the public during the national emergency

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as in contained

to gain emotional or mental control of he calmed himself before continuing the eulogy

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Recent Examples of calmed After police cordoned off an area in the city center, the situation calmed down by early Sunday morning. — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026 The Longhorns calmed the waters in Austin with their win over Mississippi and won’t slip up against a spiraling Bulldogs team that lost QB Kamario Taylor for the season. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 But now that internet novelty has calmed down over the last decade or so, people don't use it as much. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 Minervini calmed down from there, delivering a more graceful goodbye. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026 And nothing about the performance against the 49ers calmed last nerves. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026 Strangely enough, they can be calmed by conducting mindfulness exercises. — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026 Lifeguards said the conditions calmed down on Monday but still left behind dangerous conditions at the end of the Labor Day weekend. — Luzdelia Caballero, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 The product immediately calmed down my irritable, rosacea-prone skin while delivering intense hydration that lasted all day. — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 31 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for calmed

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The s and z sounds of cedar scent, soothed, breeze, petals, pads, crossed, shore, and small create a peaceful line of sound that mimics the smooth flow of a river.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
History was repeating, ancient bonds once damaged in war, silenced, and soothed in the quiet moments after.

— Nicky Robertson, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of soothed

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Surveillance video recovered by the Daily News shows a scrap collector finding the black cloth case used to hold a musical instrument that contained Owusu’s body.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
Prosecutors said the bag also contained two white envelopes stuffed with $15,000 in cash — the remainder of Meiser’s payment.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of contained

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The defense was lulled to sleep and started to celebrate, only for this genius to then scoop the ball up and race down the sidelines for a game-winning score.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Teammates admit to sometimes getting lulled into ball-watching when Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves are at the controls of the Lakers’ offense.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of lulled

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The movie’s essence is Chaucerian; the pacing is taut, jaunty, like a fairy tale, helped along by a twinkling score composed by Anna Meredith.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
Horror filmmaker Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) directs, and Ilan Eshkeri (Audible’s 1984, Netflix’s House of Guinness) composed the score.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of composed

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The cheers quieted, and the two shared a moment in this homecoming.

— Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Hundreds of people responsible for 73 million Americans’ health care quieted as conference room lights dimmed and Mehmet Oz’s face appeared on giant screens Thursday morning.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of quieted

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But the clean provenance and their New York highlife has never appeased Pooh partisans who think Fifth Avenue is much too far from the Hundred Acre Wood.

— STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
In a 3-0 battering of Scotland, manager Carlo Ancelotti appeased the people of Miami with a Neymar cameo.

— David Hickey, NBC news, 25 June 2026