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SILENCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduced to silence
Example:
the silenced crowd waited expectantly
Classified under:
Similar:
suppressed (manifesting or subjected to suppression)
Antonym:
unsilenced (not silenced)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb silence
Context examples:
"It must be," she silenced his protest.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This was finally fortunate; the horse was re-established, and the dog was silenced with a "Down, Pilot!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When they silenced SPINK7, the gene that codes for SPINK7, in cells derived from esophageal tissues, the research team discovered that large gaps formed between the cells lining the esophagus.
(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)
Again she silenced the speech that rushed up to his tongue.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Specifically, this agent has been shown to reactivate gene expression of a detoxification enzyme, glutathione S-transferase that is silenced in prostate carcinoma.
(Phenethyl isothiocyanate, NCI Thesaurus)
His price was paid, his objections silenced, and the mountain gorges lay open to the invaders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In contrast, the researchers found that many of the DNA regions controlling cytokine genes in the mice’s T cells are inaccessible and silenced prior to exposure to a pathogen.
(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)
The possibility of a relapse would of course, in some moments, occur to remind her of what anxiety was—but when she saw, on her frequent and minute examination, that every symptom of recovery continued, and saw Marianne at six o'clock sink into a quiet, steady, and to all appearance comfortable, sleep, she silenced every doubt.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Such a compliment recalled all Catherine's consciousness, and silenced her directly; and, though pointedly applied to by the general for her choice of the prevailing colour of the paper and hangings, nothing like an opinion on the subject could be drawn from her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
