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silence
noun as in absence of sound, speech
Strong matches
censorship, death, dumbness, hush, laconism, muteness, noiselessness, quiescence, quietness, quietude, reserve, sleep, speechlessness, still, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness
Weak matches
dead air, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, saturninity
verb as in make or be quiet
Strongest matches
cut off, gag, muffle, mute, muzzle, quash, quell, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress
Strong matches
clam, dampen, deaden, dull, extinguish, hush, lull, overawe, quiet, quieten, shush, soft pedal, still, tongue-tie
Weak matches
choke off, clam up, close up, cool it, cut short, decrease the volume, dry up, dumb, dummy up, hold one's tongue, hush one's mouth, hush-hush, keep it down, pipe down, quiet down, say nothing, shut up, sit on, strike dumb
Example Sentences
Every autocrat begins by silencing their country’s artists — because laughter is the enemy of fear.
Prediction marketers, states, tribes, bookmakers, gambling addiction agencies, and judges will continue to guess what the CFTC’s silence means.
As the brain gets older, IGF2 activity declines as the gene becomes chemically silenced within the hippocampus.
"The summit is taking place while all participating governments have increased efforts to stifle dissent, silence the media, and retaliate against critics at home and abroad," it said in a statement Monday.
The trial began in absolute silence as the judges took to the bench and requested the presence of the defendants.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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