0 present 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.
That loan was effectively silencing one who would otherwise have been his chief opponent.
Although the language of equal opportunity is pervasive, the ideals of democratization may nevertheless operate as a potent form of silencing with variable results.
Silencing, so broadly understood, like illocutionar y disablement, is not even a bad thing per se, much less a violation of rights.
But perlocutionar y success is not what is supposed to be at issue in the silencing argument.
But this apparent advantage also brings the disadvantage of effectively silencing her.
But did spectatorial silence, along with a lack of stage smiles, really usher in the silencing of opera itself?
Silencing the voice, film divides the senses; dividing the senses, it reveals a fundamental division in opera itself.
The reader learns that apomixis can be viewed as an altered form of sexuality that might involve paternal gene silencing.
