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silencingverbpresent participle of silence to stop the noise or speech ofthe instructor quickly silenced anyone who tried to interrupt we need to have a repairman come and silence that door alarm dumbing, extinguishing, hushing, muting, quelling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, settling, shushing, shutting up, squelching, stilling agitating, stirring to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcebrutally silenced all political dissent in the country clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, slapping down, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, subduing, suppressing dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenchingsmothering, stifling, strangling, throttlingannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, rubbing out, ruining, smashing, wasting, wreckingexterminating, obliterating, wiping outconquering, dominating, overcoming, overpowering, overwhelming, subduing, subjugating, vanquishing sitting on abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, helping, propping up, supportingfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring, whipping (up)advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting |