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| Main Entry: |
shut up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make quiet |
| Synonyms: | bottle up, choke, dry up, dummy up, fall silent, gag, hold tongue, hush, keep trap shut, muzzle, pipe down, quiet, quieten, quit chattering, shush, silence, soft-pedal, still, stop talking |
| Antonyms: | speak, talk |
| Main Entry: | confine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose, limit |
| Synonyms: | bar, bind, bound, cage, circumscribe, constrain, cool, cool down, cramp, delimit, detain, enslave, fix, hem in, hinder, hog-tie, hold back, ice*, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, keep, put a lid on, put away, put on ice, repress, restrain, restrict, send up, shorten, shut up |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, liberate, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disprove, refute |
| Synonyms: | blow sky high, break, bring to naught, confound, contradict, controvert, defeat, demolish, dismay, disprove, expose, invalidate, knocks props out from under, negate, oppugn, overcome, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, prove false, prove wrong, put down, rebut, set aside, shut up, silence, subvert, tap, upset, vanquish |
| Notes: | refute means 'to show conclusively to be false or illogical' and applies primarily to assertions or arguments; confute means 'to prove wrong' and applies primarily to the person or agency making the assertion or argument |
| Antonyms: | affirm, attest, confirm, endorse, prove, verify |
| Main Entry: | coop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confine |
| Synonyms: | cage, close in, corral, detain, enclose, fence in, hem in, hold captive, hold prisoner, impound, imprison, incarcerate, intern, keep, lock up, pen, put under lock and key, shut in, shut up, trap |
| Notes: | a coop is a cage or enclosure; a co-op is a cooperative organization |
| Antonyms: | set free |
| Main Entry: | corral |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose |
| Synonyms: | cage, confine, coop up, fence in, lock up, pen, shut in, shut up |
| Antonyms: | set free |
| Main Entry: | debrief |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | silence |
| Synonyms: | censor, dummy up, gag, hold one's tongue, hush up, mute, muzzle, put the lid on, quash, say nothing, shut up, sit on, soft-pedal, squelch, stifle, suppress |
| Main Entry: | hush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to make quiet |
| Synonyms: | burke, choke, gag, muffle, mute, muzzle, quiet, quieten, shush, shut up, silence, stifle, still, stop, suppress |
| Antonyms: | yell |
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make silent, calm |
| Synonyms: | allay, ameliorate, appease, assuage, becalm, button one's lip, calm down, can it, choke, clam up, compose, console, cool it, cool out, dummy up, fix up, gag, gratify, hold it down, hush, ice*, inactivate, lull, moderate, mollify, muffle, muzzle, pacify, palliate, patch things up, please, quieten, reconcile, relax, satisfy, settle, shush, shut up, silence, slack, smooth, soft-pedal, soften, soothe, square, squash, squelch, still, stroke, subdue, take the bite out of, tranquilize |
| Notes: | quiet (noun) is the absence of sound - (verb) to make calm, still, or quiet - (adjective) free of noise or uproar or making little if any sound; quite means to the greatest extent or actually, really, or truly |
| Antonyms: | turn up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or be quiet |
| Synonyms: | choke off, clam, clam up, close up, cool it, cut off, cut short, dampen, deaden, decrease the volume, dry up, dull, dumb, dummy up, extinguish, gag, hold one's tongue, hush, hush one's mouth, hush-hush, keep it down, lull, muffle, mute, muzzle, overawe, pipe down, quash, quell, quiet, quiet down, quieten, say nothing, shush, shut up, sit on, soft-pedal, squelch, stifle, still, strike dumb, subdue, suppress, tongue-tie |
| Antonyms: | be noisy, communicate, talk |
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