0 past simple and past participle of silence --
1 to make someone or something be quiet: --
The more they try to silence us, the more we will speak out.
figurative The enemy's guns were silenced (= made to stop firing) in a surprise attack.
Her remark about his appearance completely silenced him (= made him unable to answer).
The teacher raised his voice to silence the class (= to make them stop talking).
But many traumas experienced by young children are silenced.
Families and loved ones must not be silenced.
The problem here was that the noise of battle could not be so easily silenced.
Our approach explains why there is a limit on consonant clusters : the intervening empty vocalic positions have to be silenced.
One becomes a victim when one's genre of discourse has been silenced.
Too often we have had no choice but to listen to the doctors because their patients have been silenced.
What is often silenced in an individual who has been traumatized is given voice through music.
A is not balanced and silenced by having met his match.
