to silence
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3.5
- verb
- /ˈsaɪləns/
:
silenciar
- Critics charge that he uses these instruments to silence political opponents.
- silence voices
- silence critics
- silence the opposition
But I certainly wouldn't want his account to be silenced or shut down.
- But I certainly wouldn't want his account to be silenced or shut down.
- And what happened was they just tried to silence him in every conceivable way.
- We cannot afford to silence his voice.
- You want to silence another person, make something not so.
- So you know, this conversation that conservatives are being silenced in organizations now.
- And all those other preachers basically ought to be silenced or brought in.
- One who could silence them could unmake the world.
- So did you knowingly silence doctors?
- There is no option other than trying to silence this voice in my head.
- And and we have focus kinds of states where you can silence the the phone, etcetera.
- What you can do is over time, begin to control and silence the devil or your inner critic.
- And then they go in and they are able to selectively silence the neurons that represent sweet.
- They're using it to to silence the dissent.
Examples
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If anyone had any doubts about whether or not this attack affected him in any way, they've been silenced.
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Suspension or not, his attempts to silence us will not work.
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You may no longer silence us, right?
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You want to silence another person, make something not so.
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And when you try to silence me, I'm done.
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What's your advice for how people can silence that inner critic?
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And so they set out to silence those who have opinions at odds with theirs.
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"We've never been the type of university where we just silence our dissent."
Academic text (2017) -
"No, I won't fight all of you," he shouted, silencing the crowd's growing murmur.
Fiction book (1992) -
Please silence your phones before the presentation begins.
Synonyms
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4.1
Tell someone to be quiet in a rude or angry way
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5.8
To make a sound or feeling quieter so it is less noticeable
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2.0
Make people or things less noisy and less active
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3.5
To make a sound so loud that you cannot hear another sound
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3.4
Make a person or thing quiet so others stop making noise
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4.2
To make quiet or calm
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4.6
Make someone or something less noisy and calmer
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5.0
Make someone stop talking and be quiet
To quietly stop something from being talked about
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To speak or act forcefully to confront a problem instead of staying quiet
- Informal
Not speaking is often better than saying things you do not need to say
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Jargon
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9.5
An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
How Silent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Silence as a verb comes from the Latin silēre 'to be quiet', so to silence someone is to make them 'be quiet' or stop them from speaking.