zwijgen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- silence noun Complete absence of sound.
Senses
zwijgen is used for these senses in English:
- be silent To refrain from speaking; to say nothing. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- clam up (intransitive, informal) To become silent; to stop talking.
- keep quiet (intransitive) To remain silent.
- shut up (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- silence The act of refraining from speaking.
silence — full definition
- noun Complete absence of sound.
- noun The state of not speaking.
- verb To make someone or something silent, often by force or suppression.