cool down

1. Also, cool off.

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.

3. See cool off , def. 2.

Example Sentences

It confirmed the cause of food poisoning was Clostridium perfringens, a bacteria which can grow while food cools down and there is no wider public risk.

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"In order to cool down, they have to move all these elements that produce heat -- uranium, thorium and potassium -- towards the surface, because if these elements stay deep, they create heat and melt the crust."

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She says she “makes a beeline” to the quiet room where she cools down and refocuses.

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To help cool down the processing chips, Musk said he rented about a quarter of the country’s mobile cooling capacity, while the company worked with SuperMicro to procure liquid-cooled server racks for longer-term use.

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A man pushing a cooler full of 50-cent bottled waters wiped sweat from his forehead and tried to cool down with a Spanish fan.

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