silence

Definition for silence

noun as in absence of sound, speech

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blackout, calm, lull, peace, quiet, reticence, secrecy, stillness

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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

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cut off, gag, muffle, mute, muzzle, quash, quell, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress

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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

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Justice was “minimally served” for Jax, said Matt, who stormed out of the court, suspending the room in silence as the door slammed behind him.

From Los Angeles Times

Cerezo dresses De la Huerta in a white petticoat and matching corset until she tosses off the top and demands total silence.

From Los Angeles Times

"There will always be one or two seconds of silence when I say I am from China."

From BBC

Fugard defined the essence of what he called “pure theater” as nothing more “than the actor and the stage, the actor in space and silence.”

From Los Angeles Times

“There is a fierce public debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria,” Thomas said, and the state has “silenced one side of this debate.”

From Los Angeles Times

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