The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silence \Si"lence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silenced; p. pr. & vb. n. Silencing.]
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To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle.
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To put to rest; to quiet.
This would silence all further opposition.
--Clarendon.These would have silenced their scruples.
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To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity.
--B. Trumbull. To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is silenced. vb. (present participle of silence English)
Wikipedia
Silencing is a visual illusion in which a set of objects that change in luminance, hue, size, or shape appears to stop changing when it moves. It was discovered by Jordan Suchow and George Alvarez of Harvard University, and described in a paper published in Current Biology. Silencing won the Neural Correlate Society's "Best visual illusion of the year contest" in 2011.
Usage examples of "silencing".
A long fanfare rang out, silencing the chatter of the courtiers, and bright light spilled out from the great courtroom of Lionstone XIV.
The indifference and contempt of the sovereign would have been, perhaps, the most effectual method of silencing the dispute, if the popular current had been less rapid and impetuous, and if Constantine himself, in the midst of faction and fanaticism, could have preserved the calm possession of his own mind.