cool down

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

You might go out to work and let the house cool down; then return home and fire up the furnace.

From BBC

It’s finally expected to cool down in Southern California this weekend after a scorching heat wave this week broke temperature records across the region.

From Los Angeles Times

Then he decided he was hot, and flapped into a pool of meltwater to cool down.

From Literature

There’s a risk that things heat up before they cool down, a situation that may not be priced into the market just yet.

From Barron's

Traditionally, scientists believed the tin nucleus simply released neutrons to cool down, effectively losing any trace of the earlier beta decay event.

From Science Daily

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