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silence

the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"

the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"

keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"

Synonyms:

• answer,
• answer conclusively,
• argue down,
• asphyxiate,
• ataraxia,
• ataraxy,
• blow to pieces,
• blow up,
• blunt,
• bottle up,
• brain,
• brevity,
• briefness,
• bring down,
• brusqueness,
• burn to death,
• calm,
• calmness,
• censor,
• choke,
• choke off,
• clamp down on,
• composure,
• conciseness,
• confound,
• confute,
• contemplation,
• contradict,
• controvert,
• cork,
• cork up,
• crack down on,
• crush,
• curtains,
• curtness,
• cut down,
• cut to pieces,
• damp,
• damp down,
• dampen,
• deaden,
• deal a deathblow,
• decease,
• deck,
• defeat,
• deflate,
• demise,
• demolish,
• deny,
• disarm,
• disintegrate,
• dismiss,
• dispose of,
• dissolution,
• drop,
• drown,
• dumb,
• dumbfound,
• dumbness,
• economy of words,
• emasculate,
• enchain,
• extinguish,
• fell,
• finish,
• floor,
• frag,
• gag,
• give the quietus,
• gun down,
• hamstring,
• handcuff,
• hobble,
• hog-tie,
• hold down,
• hugger-mugger,
• hugger-muggery,
• hush,
• hush-hush,
• imperturbability,
• incinerate,
• inhibit,
• jugulate,
• jump on,
• keep down,
• keep under,
• kill,
• knock out,
• laconicalness,
• laconism,
• lapidate,
• lay low,
• lucid stillness,
• lull,
• manacle,
• marmoreal repose,
• mitigate,
• mollify,
• muffle,
• mute,
• muteness,
• muzzle,
• nirvana,
• noiselessness,
• nonplus,
• obmutescence,
• overcome,
• overmaster,
• overmatch,
• overpower,
• overset,
• overthrow,
• overturn,
• overwhelm,
• pacify,
• paralyze,
• parry,
• passing,
• pauciloquy,
• peace,
• peacefulness,
• pistol,
• placidity,
• placidness,
• poleax,
• pour water on,
• propitiate,
• prostrate,
• put down,
• put out,
• put to silence,
• quash,
• quell,
• quench,
• quiescence,
• quiescency,
• quiet,
• quieten,
• quietism,
• quietness,
• quietude,
• quietus,
• rebut,
• reduce to silence,
• refute,
• repose,
• repress,
• rest,
• restfulness,
• restrain,
• reticence,
• riddle,
• satori,
• secretiveness,
• secretness,
• send flying,
• serenity,
• settle,
• shoot,
• shoot down,
• shoot to death,
• shortness,
• shotgun,
• shush,
• shut down on,
• shut off,
• shut up,
• silken repose,
• sit down on,
• sit on,
• sleep,
• slumber,
• smash,
• smash all opposition,
• smother,
• snuff out,
• soft-pedal,
• soothe,
• soundlessness,
• sparingness of words,
• speechlessness,
• squash,
• squelch,
• stab to death,
• stamp out,
• stanch,
• stifle,
• still,
• stillness,
• stone,
• stone to death,
• strangle,
• strike dead,
• strike dumb,
• stultify,
• subdue,
• subvert,
• suffocate,
• suppress,
• surmount,
• taciturnity,
• temper,
• terseness,
• throttle,
• trample out,
• trample underfoot,
• tranquillity,
• trip,
• trip up,
• truss up,
• uncommunicativeness,
• undermine,
• unloquaciousness,
• untalkativeness,
• upset,
• vaporize,
• wise passiveness,
• wordlessness