Definition for Silence:

• To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

Synonyms for Silence:

• n.

  •
  • check.
  •
  • inaudible.
  •absence of sound, speech (noun)
  • hush-hush,
  • laconism,
  • iron curtain,
  • censorship,
  • speechlessness,
  • secrecy,
  • sleep,
  • stillness,
  • quietus,
  • quiescence,
  • blackout,
  • reticence,
  • hush,
  • dumbness,
  • sullenness,
  • quietude,
  • muteness,
  • dead air,
  • Inarticulateness,
  • saturninity,
  • noiselessness.
  •calm (noun)
  • tranquillity,
  • placidness,
  • placidity,
  • peacefulness.
  •deafness (noun)
  • stone-deafness,
  • deaf-mute,
  • deafness.
  •death (noun)
  • decease,
  • passing.
  •dumbness (noun)
  • voicelessness.
  •non-resonance (noun)
  • non-resonance,
  • flatness,
  • dullness,
  • deadness.
  •silence (noun)
  • inaudibility.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • hush up.
  •make or be quiet (verb)
  • subdue,
  • dampen,
  • quash,
  • quiet down,
  • cool it,
  • cut short,
  • squelch,
  • clam,
  • choke off,
  • shush,
  • overawe,
  • hush one's mouth,
  • deaden,
  • extinguish,
  • dumb,
  • say nothing,
  • hold one's tongue,
  • close up,
  • clam up,
  • dull.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • soundless,
  • interdiction,
  • waylay,
  • noiseless,
  • restraint,
  • refusal,
  • restrain,
  • shackle,
  • wordlessness,
  • nonacceptance,
  • quietness,
  • rebuttal.
  •
  • rest,
  • prohibition,
  • sulk,
  • monopolize,
  • gag,
  • blacklist.
  •
  • sandbag,
  • revolt,
  • dismissal,
  • veto,
  • foil.
  •
  • silent.
  •
  • rejection,
  • resistance.
  •humble
  • strike dumb.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Inertly,
  • have,
  • speechlessly,
  • cacoepy,
  • assuage,
  • disable,
  • cork,
  • smother,
  • waste,
  • always,
  • Arriere Pensee,
  • handcuff,
  • mildly,
  • constantly,
  • reticent,
  • motionlessly,
  • stab to death,
  • tenderly,
  • settle,
  • dead of night,
  • concealment,
  • cut down,
  • drop,
  • shoot,
  • composure,
  • serene,
  • Ataraxy,
  • bring down,
  • be still,
  • static,
  • curtness,
  • ataraxia,
  • sprain,
  • answer conclusively,
  • brevity,
  • can it,
  • murmur,
  • put away,
  • restfulness,
  • terseness,
  • anticyclone,
  • hog-tie,
  • disarm,
  • softly,
  • ease,
  • curb,
  • hobble,
  • put out,
  • humiliate,
  • gloss over,
  • mystery,
  • censor,
  • ice,
  • paralyze,
  • subvert,
  • snub,
  • anagoge,
  • coolly,
  • placate,
  • ever,
  • incapacitate,
  • lock up,
  • deny,
  • control,
  • hold back,
  • crush,
  • explode,
  • overcome,
  • inhibit,
  • gently,
  • limbo,
  • silently,
  • lock,
  • muffled,
  • cabala,
  • tone down,
  • slowly,
  • privateness,
  • peacefully,
  • suppression,
  • nirvana,
  • disprove,
  • temper,
  • garrotte,
  • jump on,
  • kill,
  • tonelessness,
  • placid,
  • implicit,
  • noiselessly,
  • Silentness,
  • satori,
  • emasculate,
  • lock in,
  • belt up,
  • tranquillize,
  • soothe,
  • maim,
  • Pauciloquy,
  • eliminate,
  • zap,
  • Occultness,
  • FRAG,
  • allay,
  • contemplation,
  • rebut,
  • fell,
  • faintly,
  • motionless,
  • assassinate,
  • confound,
  • respite,
  • inactivity,
  • shut down,
  • sleek over,
  • incommunicative,
  • quiescency,
  • undercurrent,
  • truss,
  • dispatch,
  • lower,
  • mortify,
  • nowhere,
  • reservation,
  • execute,
  • neutralize,
  • answer,
  • despatch,
  • take down,
  • serenely,
  • Overset,
  • slumber,
  • slight,
  • rest period,
  • riddle,
  • abash,
  • white lie,
  • reject,
  • negative,
  • poleax,
  • whist,
  • cripple,
  • gun down,
  • bottle up,
  • trample out,
  • polish off,
  • nullify,
  • button up,
  • conciseness,
  • upset,
  • defeat,
  • briefness,
  • trip,
  • finish,
  • squash,
  • tranquility,
  • mitigate,
  • after that,
  • conceal,
  • sluggishly,
  • expose,
  • pax,
  • speechless,
  • soft pedal,
  • shortness,
  • Secretness,
  • placidly,
  • overmaster,
  • lightly,
  • quiesce,
  • brusqueness,
  • garrote,
  • stammer,
  • floor,
  • pistol,
  • mutely,
  • de-emphasize,
  • calmness,
  • dumbly,
  • stultify,
  • overthrow,
  • brain,
  • manacle,
  • shut away,
  • controvert,
  • disenable,
  • mum,
  • Clandestinity,
  • HIT,
  • hide,
  • dispose of,
  • alleviate,
  • Overmatch,
  • bury,
  • rub out,
  • indistinctly,
  • overturn,
  • nowheresville,
  • soften,
  • parry,
  • quietly,
  • trample underfoot,
  • aphonia,
  • undermine,
  • appease,
  • Raucity,
  • do in,
  • Obmutescence,
  • absorb,
  • put,
  • disqualify,
  • Ratten,
  • shut off,
  • erase,
  • muted,
  • lock away,
  • mutedly,
  • propitiate,
  • shotgun,
  • hugger mugger,
  • smoothly,
  • vaporise,
  • put to death,
  • clinch an argument,
  • tranquilly,
  • vaporize,
  • tardily,
  • shut,
  • secretiveness,
  • slay,
  • obscurity,
  • huggermugger,
  • strangle,
  • surmount,
  • uncommunicative,
  • break,
  • lame,
  • nonplus,
  • serenity,
  • peace of mind,
  • truss up,
  • murder,
  • prostrate,
  • Jugulate,
  • do for,
  • take life,
  • unhinge,
  • falsetto,
  • choke,
  • Aphony,
  • lay low,
  • deflate,
  • dead,
  • whitewash,
  • confidentiality,
  • suffocate,
  • tranquillise,
  • unfit,
  • contradict,
  • relieve,
  • destroy,
  • dumbfound,
  • dismiss,
  • drown,
  • blow up,
  • double up,
  • damp,
  • Becripple,
  • imperturbability,
  • dully,
  • Absence of Voice,
  • cry down,
  • closeness,
  • disintegrate,
  • Misprision,
  • trip up,
  • keep quiet,
  • soundlessly,
  • overwhelm,
  • quench,
  • asphyxiate,
  • facelessness,
  • dummy,
  • mollify,
  • stanch,
  • do away with,
  • lapidate,
  • discourage,
  • oblivion,
  • shame,
  • become silent,
  • cut to pieces,
  • calmly,
  • deck,
  • smash,
  • stamp out,
  • hamstring,
  • snuff out,
  • patiently,
  • invalidate,
  • overpower,
  • stone,
  • keep mum,
  • nevertheless,
  • peaceably,
  • Redargue,
  • quietism,
  • inarticulate,
  • curtains,
  • be quiet,
  • tranquilize,
  • demolish,
  • get,
  • cramp,
  • keep under,
  • incinerate,
  • be silent,
  • Dysphony,
  • calm down,
  • privacy,
  • argue down,
  • enchain,
  • soundproof,
  • repose,
  • dead calm,
  • blunt,
  • bump off,
  • evasion,
  • tacit.

Paraphrases for Silence:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    silent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    silent.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Silencing.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    calmness, secrecy, mourning, quietness, mention.
  • Adverb
    silently, quietly.
  • Interjection
    sllence.
  • Verb, past tense
    Challenged, Defied, Did, Got.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Mentioning, settling, owing.
  • Verb, past participle
    Mentioned, ignored, overlooked, changed, Omitted, said, heard.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    ignores.
  • Verb, base form
    stifle, gag, smother, quell, suppress, suffocate, nip, strangle, mention.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    silencer, reticence.

Antonyms for Silence:

• n.

  • absence of sound, speech
    noise, communication, agitation, talk, clamor.
  • attribute
    sound.
  • Other antonyms:
    importance, loquacity, name, renown, recognition, acclaim, adoration, uproar, kudos, reputation, honor, preeminence, prominence, unquietness, rank, favor, volubility, celebrity, eminence, eloquence, idolization, hubbub, talking, stature, popularity, mark, verboseness, repute, prestige, talkativeness, wordiness, verbosity, significance, garrulousness, greatness, position, acknowledgment, cachet, note, notoriety, tumult, report, fluency, loquaciousness, superstardom, character, praise, windiness, glory, rep, standing, distinction.

• v.

  • change
    louden.
  • make or be quiet
    start, communicate, let go, encourage, be noisy, release, allow, help, permit.

Homophones for Silence:

• scale moss, so long, sullenness, sling, scalenus, salonika, Sal Ammoniac, salonica, sealing, shilling, slyness, solomons, suckling, slanguage, Sholom Asch, sculling, slowing, succulence, soiling, slang, saliency, slaying, silenus, shallowness, swelling, sizzling, sliminess, solanaceae, silliness, scaling, Shalom Asch, selling, slangy, scowling, sailing, Succulency, schilling, solanaceous, Solan Goose, solemness, Sholem Asch, slink, salience, schooling, solemnize, sex linkage, shelling, sallowness, Scaliness, slimness, sealing wax, solomonic, scolymus, squealing, salmacis, solemnise, squalling, swilling, slowness.

Hypernym for Silence:

• n.

  • attribute
    still, speechlessness, stillness, soundlessness, quietness, hush.

• v.

  • change
    shout down, muzzle, shush, lull, gag, calm down.

Hyponym for Silence:

• n.

  • attribute
    sound property.
  • state
    condition, status.

• v.

  • change
    suppress, subdue, stamp down, conquer.