Silencing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SILENCING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SILENCE, to make quiet
• cause to become silent; prohibit or prevent from speaking
• fit (a gun or an exhaust system) with a silencer
NOUN:
• complete absence of sound
• the fact or state of abstaining from speech
• the avoidance of mentioning or discussing something
• a short appointed period of time during which people stand still and do not speak as a sign of respect for a dead person or group of people
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make silent

Words related to SILENCING

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How to use SILENCING in a sentence

• We did not find him, however, though we succeeded in silencing him.
• True, he would have had to find some way of silencing Hill while he got away from the country.
• This power of silencing oracles, and putting the devils to flight, is also attested by Arnobius, Lactantius, Prudentius, Minutius, Felix, and several others.
• They were shelling and silencing the enemy artillery.
• Alone, she would invent conversations with her mother, silencing the foolish woman with unanswerable sarcastic phrases that utterly destroyed her illogical arguments.
• He was one who drew all who came in contact with him to his heart, disarming all prejudices, silencing all cavil.
• He scolded, pleaded, threatened, roared prophecies, and overcame them, silencing every murmur.
• Instead of closing with the battery, and silencing the gun, as they might have done, they kept aloof, and even rendered less assistance to the ship than was in their power.
• They got so annoyed that they trained their artillery in the direction of the sounds, and used to shell us all along the line in the hope of silencing our concerts.
• Ferdinand was much encouraged by this change in his favor, and declared his intention of silencing all Protestant voices.
• No matter how perfect this covering may be, it is never completely effective in silencing the enemy fire.
• But although ease may be obtained by silencing self-reproach, safety scarcely can.
• Furiously Dane slapped the cage, setting it to swinging and so silencing the creature which stared at him with round, malignant eyes as he got the Captain to bed.
• They had done a good job at silencing the E-Stat, for they had been almost six hours in space before the news of their raid was beamed to the nearest Patrol post.
• Vaughan at last succeeded in silencing the gun which had troubled us most, and preparations were made for an attack on the village.
• Perhaps, also, the ardent desire of silencing those who violently denied the divine mission of Jesus, carried his enthusiastic friends beyond all bounds.
• A second look of the landlord was emphatic enough for the purpose of completely silencing her farther evidence.
• He looked at the unconscious face for a moment, then softly dropped the blanket and stole back to his place ready to turn at the first foot fall and lift a silencing hand.
• As often as possible, the same religious uttered innumerable evil and infamous things against the fathers of the Society, which the latter passed by, silencing their suffering.
• Silencing the clamor, with an authoritative voice, he proposed a plan that was unanimously adopted.
• They have flouted the authority of the King, and they are silencing by assassination those who raise their voices to condemn them.
• How could she ever get herself out of it? Her heart beat so that it seemed a live creature strangling and silencing her.
• But an almost exclusive attention to these qualities involves some repression and silencing of poetry.
• All the resources of the arts of controversy find full play for silencing the opponent before the final philosophical answer is given.
• She had used, he did not doubt, the same sort of language in silencing Anderson.
• The German guns had replied vigorously, but directing only a passing fire at the trenches, had devoted their efforts chiefly to the silencing of the British artillery.
• Unfortunately this conduct, instead of silencing the voices, only seemed to irritate them the more, and they arose with redoubled fury, in front as well as behind.
• He must evidently have sworn this debt against you for the purpose of getting rid of your claim, and silencing your mouth till you could catch him no longer.
• And in power they valued most dearly the atrocious right of silencing, by foul means or fair, all opinions that were not official.
• A sharp pity invaded him, holding him back from her, silencing the flow of his reasoning and appeal.
• The trick might not have availed with Robin Frost, but they had found a different method of silencing him.

Similar words containing SILENC without suffix ing

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