silence

silence
n
1. stillness, still, hush; noiselessness, soundlessness, quiet, quietness, quietude, Chiefly Irish. whist, Sl. q.t.; peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, calm, calmness, placidity, serenity, tranquility, rest, repose.
2. muteness, Psychiatry. mutism, speechlessness, dumbness, Pathol. aphonia, voicelessness, wordlessness, tonguelessness; incommunicativeness, inexpres-sion, tacitness; dumfounderment, amazement, astonishment.
3. reticence, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness, reserve, reservation; bashfulness, shyness, meekness, timidity, timorousness, diffidence; modesty, constraint, unassertiveness.
4. oblivion, obscurity, privacy; adumbration, shade, darkness.
5. secrecy, secretiveness, suppression, repression, concealment, delitescence, delitescency; stealth, fur-tiveness, evasion.
v
6. still, shush, hush, quiet, Chiefly Brit. quieten; lull, calm, tranquilize; pacify, appease, dulcify, propitiate, reconcile, smooth, soothe, compose; play down, tone down, Inf. soft-pedal; soften, allay, mitigate; ease, assuage, mollify, palliate.
7. moderate, blunt, dull, deaden; temper, decrease, weaken, slacken, lessen, lighten, diminish, abate; settle, alleviate, relieve, slake, quench.
8. repress, suppress, subdue, inhibit, quell, quash, put down, damp, dampen; chasten, restrain, sober; stifle, gag, mute, muffle, smother, Inf. squelch; talk down, Inf. squash, Inf. shut up, Sl. slap down; muzzle, throttle, choke, strangle; stop, arrest, curb, check, stay, cut off, cut short, prevent, forestall, preclude, put an end to; kill, slay, murder; interrupt, cut in. —interj.
9. be silent, be quiet, be still, quiet, sh, shush, hush, not another word, hold your tongue, whist, hist; Ail Sl. pipe down, shut your mouth, turn it off, can it, shut up, Sl. soft.

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