silence
/ˈsaɪlən(t)s/ verbe C2En français : faire taire, réduire au silence, étouffer
- 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 · Prétérit silenced · Participe passé silenced · Forme en -ing silencing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- silence
- He/she/it
- silences
- Prétérit
- silenced
- Participe passé
- silenced
- Forme en -ing
- silencing
Dans la bibliothèque
Silence all round, if you please!
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!” “Do as I tell you, you coward!” and at last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in the air.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!” then the Rabbit’s voice along—“Catch him, you by the hedge!” then silence, and then another confusion of voices—“Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don’t choke him—How was it, old fellow?
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