I.
noun
1 peaceful situation/manner/feeling
ADJECTIVE
▪ apparent
▪
Under his apparent ~ lay real anxiety.
▪ inner
▪
the pursuit of inner ~
▪ uneasy
▪ forced
▪
With a forced ~ she said, ‘How do you know?’
▪ dead
▪
She felt not fear, but a kind of dead ~.
▪ deadly , deathly , eerie , icy
▪
‘I'm calling the police!’ he stated with deadly ~.
VERB + CALM
▪ appeal for , call for
▪
The government appealed for ~ after the riots broke out.
▪ restore
▪
Calm had been restored to the capital.
▪ maintain , regain
▪
He struggled to maintain his ~ as they waited.
▪ shatter
▪
The ~ was shattered by the sound of an explosion.
CALM + VERB
▪ descend , settle
▪
After the bomb, an uneasy ~ settled on the city.
PHRASES
▪ a period of ~
2 at sea
ADJECTIVE
▪ dead , flat ( esp. BrE )
▪
The water was a dead ~.
▪
Seals basked on boulders in a flat ~.
II.
verb
Calm is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ fear , ↑ mind , ↑ nerve , ↑ situation
III.
adj.
VERBS
▪ appear , be , feel , look , seem , sound
▪
I may have appeared ~ but I certainly didn't feel it.
▪ become
▪ keep , remain , stay
▪
Sit down and keep ~!
▪
The pilot urged the passengers to remain ~.
▪ keep sb
▪
Keep the patient ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ remarkably
▪
You seem remarkably ~.
▪ completely , perfectly
▪
Her voice was firm and perfectly ~.
▪ outwardly
▪
The voice sounded outwardly ~.
▪ strangely
▪
The pain had receded and he felt strangely ~.
▪ dead
▪
The sea was dead ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
She seemed pretty ~ about it.
PHRASES
▪ ~ and collected , cool, ~ and collected
▪
He remained at all times cool, ~ and collected.
Calm is used with these nouns: ↑ assurance , ↑ atmosphere , ↑ composure , ↑ confidence , ↑ deliberation , ↑ dignity , ↑ expression , ↑ exterior , ↑ manner , ↑ ocean , ↑ reassurance , ↑ sea , ↑ surface , ↑ tone , ↑ voice , ↑ water , ↑ weather