0 past simple and past participle of silence
1 to make someone or something be quiet:
The teacher raised his voice to silence the class (= to make them stop talking).
Her remark about his appearance completely silenced him (= made him unable to answer).
figurative The enemy's guns were silenced (= made to stop firing) in a surprise attack.
The more they try to silence us, the more we will speak out.
At many regional exchanges, such differences were silenced to circumvent conflict between the participants.
The piece provides an opportunity to give recognition and support - space - to voices that have been silenced.
But if revolution concealed behind picturesque landscape or silenced by local color might appeal to the censor, it still presented its own problems.
For this highly individualistic reevaluation and the agency shown, she gets punished or silenced for ever.
In spite of claims by the editor to national representation, many voices are silenced by their absences.
The article shows how through a series of assumptions the doubts regarding the programme were silenced and the narrative upheld.
He and his fiddle are silent, silenced by noise.
A is not balanced and silenced by having met his match.
