silence

1. (transitive) To make (someone or something) silent.Examples: "Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?"Synonyms: mutetransitive

2. (transitive) To repress the expression of something.Examples: "Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced."transitive

3. (transitive) To suppress criticism, etc.Examples: "Silence the critics."; "Silence the doubters."; "A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs."transitive

4. (molecular biology) To block gene expression.

5. (euphemistic) To murder.Examples: "They, and others through the years, believed Ruby must have acted on his own since there was no logic to the supposition that anyone could trust an uncontrollable, unreliable loudmouth like Ruby to silence Oswald."euphemistic