ceased / calmed down

In Gbaya, the notion of ceasing, calming down, or subsiding of something (such as the wind, the water or the earth) is emphasized in the referenced verses with dezeŋ, an ideophone that describes something that is completely calmed down or that subsided.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many Central African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)