silenced
sahy luhnst
- v cause to be quiet or not talk
- v keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure
All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power - a reduced to silence
the silenced crowd waited expectantly
- The ship was not expected to survive the punishing climate for long and in November, the encroaching darkness and cold of the Martian winter silenced it for good.
- Now-silenced critics once called Elihu Root cold, legalistic, a man whose loyalties and sympathies and passions were solely of the mind.
- Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced .