Calm down (intransitive) means ‘to become less angry, less excited, etc’: ‘Once everyone had calmed down, the meeting continued.’
The object of calm down (transitive) is always a person: ‘The doctor gave him a tranquillizer to calm him down.’ ‘In the end I agreed to go with her, just to calm her down.’
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