Thesaurus / silence
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synonyms for silence
- cut off
- gag
- muffle
- mute
- muzzle
- quash
- quell
- squelch
- stifle
- subdue
- suppress
- clam
- dampen
- deaden
- dull
- extinguish
- hush
- lull
- overawe
- quiet
- quieten
- shush
- soft pedal
- still
- tongue-tie
- choke off
- clam up
- close up
- cool it
- cut short
- decrease the volume
- dry up
- dumb
- dummy up
- hold one's tongue
- hush-hush
- hush one's mouth
- keep it down
- pipe down
- quiet down
- say nothing
- shut up
- sit on
- strike dumb
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The silence observed at the GOP convention is familiar to those of us who contended for years with Republican parents and relatives.
LGBTQ: THE LETTERS REPUBLICANS DIDN’T UTTERHANS JOHNSONSEPTEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEIn 2014, NSO had been bought for around $100 million by the American private equity firm Francisco Partners, which had a strict no-press policy that Hulio says led to a harmful culture of silence.
THE MAN WHO BUILT A SPYWARE EMPIRE SAYS IT’S TIME TO COME OUT OF THE SHADOWSBOBBIE JOHNSONAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLast week, I wrote about young activists in North County motivated to protest not only George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis but their own communities’ history of silence on racial justice issues and police brutality.
NORTH COUNTY REPORT: AN ACTIVIST ON HIS AGENDA FOR NORTH COUNTY AND BEYONDKAYLA JIMENEZJUNE 24, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOJust by having that realm of silence and the room to think, that’s when the ideas appear.
BEFORE WORKING ON SPACECRAFT, THIS ENGINEER OVERCAME SELF-DOUBTCAROLYN WILKEAPRIL 7, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSFelix explained to PEOPLE that she was first inspired to share her story after two of her former Nike teammates, Olympic runners Alysia Montaño and Kara Goucher, broke their silence on the brand’s treatment of their pregnant female athletes.
OLYMPIAN ALLYSON FELIX BREAKS USAIN BOLT'S RECORD—10 MONTHS AFTER EMERGENCY C-SECTIONHEALTHOCTOBER 3, 2019HEALTHThe hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYJanet's silence impressed Hilda: it was not merely strange--it was formidable: it affected the whole day.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTWhen he had finished, she took them from his hand, and turning them round in agitated silence, examined their seals and writing.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTEROf silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThere was a deep silence throughout the whole bivouac; some were sleeping, and those who watched were in no humour for idle chat.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SILENCE
- afterlife
- cessation
- curtains
- decease
- demise
- dissolution
- dying
- end
- eternal rest
- eternal sleep
- euthanasia
- expiration
- extermination
- extinction
- final rest
- final sleep
- finis
- finish
- grave
- grim reaper
- heaven
- loss of life
- mort
- mortality
- necrosis
- oblivion
- paradise
- passing
- passing over
- quietus
- release
- repose
- silence
- termination
- tomb
- afterlifes
- annihilation
- bereavements
- casualties
- cessations
- curtains
- darkness
- decease
- demises
- departures
- destructions
- dissolutions
- downfalls
- dyings
- endings
- ends
- eradication
- eternal rests
- euthanasia
- exits
- expirations
- exterminations
- extinctions
- fatalities
- finis
- finishes
- graves
- grim reapers
- heavens
- losses
- mortalities
- necroses
- obliterations
- oblivion
- paradises
- partings
- passing
- passing overs
- quieti
- releases
- repose
- ruination
- ruins
- silences
- sleep
- terminations
- tombs
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