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View definitions for be silent

be silent

verb as in button one's lip

verb as in sulk

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"The British Crown committed heinous crimes against the first peoples of this country... I will not be silent," the independent senator said.

From BBC

From an evangelical Christian standpoint, I did everything I could do to be a good God-honoring wife except be silent.

From Salon

To be silent is to continue to deny the intelligent, well-educated woman that I am.

From Salon

"Until all The Disappeared are home the families will not rest nor will they be silent."

From BBC

After meeting Netanyahu at the White House in July, she said she would “not be silent” about the situation in Gaza and said she had expressed to him her “serious concern about the scale of human suffering” and the deaths of innocent civilians.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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