silenced

The twins snickered, but their mother silenced them with a hiss.

The baroness silenced her spouse with a look.

Benn silenced his doubters by winning the rematch and he will have plenty more waiting in the wings to make a case for why he cannot win a world title.

That took the wind out of the crowd's sails and Murrayfield, marking 100 years of international rugby, was silenced again moments before half-time when Scotland were caught sleeping and Sititi put Jordan away.

PU.1 is a protein that binds to specific DNA regions, helping control which genes are activated or silenced.