Calm and Try

Opposite meaning words

Calm verb - To free from distress or disturbance.

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Try is an antonym for calm.

Nearby Words: calmness, calmed, calming, calmly

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Calm is an antonym for try in bother topic.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

old	old calm	old try
good	good calm	good try
normal	normal calm	normal try
usual	usual calm	usual try
Other adjectives: complete, total, small, wonderful, general, less, competent, scary.

When he catches up to her in the girl's bathroom, he explains he only opened his fly because she got him excited, so he wanted to try and calm down.

Source: Film / Diner
A retired superhero, Helen is Genre Savvy enough to keep calm and try to assess the situation.

Source: This Is no Time to Panic
Rob and Satchel know about this, and comment that it's sometimes better to just deliberately invoke it than to try and calm him down.

Source: Sleepyhead

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