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cool down
Also, cool off.
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.
See cool off , def. 2.
Example Sentences
Responding to an X user's suggestion he that he "cool down" he wrote, "Good advice. Ok, we won’t decommission Dragon."
"It started in the North Sea and the Celtic Sea. Now the North Sea has cooled down a bit but the west of Ireland is extremely hot," says Dr Barthou.
This achieves temperature changes through mechanical stress to elastocaloric materials, which can cool down or heat up with the application of stress.
“Unless you’ve trained for heat and this tough terrain, we strongly encourage everyone to wait until it cools down,” Nguyen said.
“You can also ask for the tea bag on the side, if you want the water to cool down for a minute, just so you're at a better brewing temperature.”
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