silence
/ˈsaɪlən(t)s/ verb C2- To make (someone or something) silent. · Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?
- To repress the expression of something. · Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.
- To suppress criticism, etc. · Silence the critics.· Silence the doubters.
- To block gene expression.
- To murder.
He/she/it silences · Past silenced · Past participle silenced · -ing form silencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- silence
- He/she/it
- silences
- Past
- silenced
- Past participle
- silenced
- -ing form
- silencing
From the library
He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand.
This second departure was followed by a long and fearful state of terrified silence on the part of those who were left behind.
“A pretty silence truly!” said the old father of the bridegroom, as he carried to his lips a glass of wine of the hue and brightness of the topaz, and which had just been placed before Mercédès herself.
It would not be very loud, and yet in the silence of the night it should have easily penetrated to Mrs.
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