silence
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- (uncountable) Silence is when no noise is heard.
- The silence was strange, not even a bird could be heard.
- (countable) A silence is a time when there is no noise.
- We had one minute of silence to remember the people who had died in the war.
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- If you silence something, you stop it from making noise.
- If you silence someone, you stop them from talking.
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