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n

1. silence, stillness, hush; soundlessness, noiselessness, quietness, quietude; tranquillity, serenity, placidity, imperturbation, calmness, calm; quiescence, peacefulness, peace; ease, repose, rest.

2. pause, lull, break, halt, standstill, stop; cessation, abatement, discontinuance, suspension, suspense, abeyance; deferment, postponement, delay, wait; interim, interval, intermission, intermittence, intermittency; dormancy, hibernation, latency; status quo, waiting period, waiting game; inaction, inactivity, stagnation, stagnancy; immobility, motionlessness.

3. uncommunicativeness, secretiveness.

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adj

1. calm, passive,i peaceable, mild, quiescent; tranquil, reposeful, halcyon, serene, sedate, placid, peaceful, pacific, restful; undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, unagitated.

2. composed, temperate, sober, grave, unexcitable, unexcited, unperturbed, imperturbable, indifferent, cool, cool-headed; subdued, restrained, moderate, unobtrusive, unobtruding, undemonstrative; taciturn, uncommunicative, reserved, reticent; stoical, unimpas-sioned, dispassionate, philosophical.

3. still, stock-still, motionless, immovable, immobile; stationary, fixed, unmoved, unmoving, becalmed; stagnant, lifeless, inert; inactive, latent, dormant, dormient.

4. silent, noiseless, soundless, hushed; mute, speechless, mum, voiceless.

5. sleepy, sleeping, slumbering, dozing, somnolent, slumberous; sluggish, lethargic, torpid, torpescent; idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, supine, otiose; listless, languid, lackadaisical.

6. uncommunicated, unrevealed, undisclosed, secret, hushed up.

7. deferred, postponed, suspended, abeyant.

v

8. silence, still, shush, hush, Chiefly Brit. quieten; lull, calm, tranquilize; pacify, appease, smooth, soothe, compose; repress, suppress, subdue, temper, put down, damp, dampen; chasten, restrain, sober; play down, tone down, Inf. soft-pedal; soften, allay, mitigate; ease, assuage, mollify, palliate.

9. moderate, blunt, dull, deaden; decrease, weaken, slacken, lessen, diminish, abate; settle, alleviate, relieve.

10. quell, quench, Inf. squelch; muzzle, stifle, muffle, mute; gag, throttle, choke, strangle, smother; stop, arrest, curb, check, stay, cut off, cut short, prevent, forestall, preclude; interrupt, cut in.