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v. (communication) | 1. be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, close up, dummy up, keep mum, shut up | refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent.; "The children shut up when their father approached" |
v. (contact) | 2. lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up | place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" |
| ~ confine | prevent from leaving or from being removed. |
v. (change) | 3. hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still | cause to be quiet or not talk.; "Please silence the children in the church!" |
| ~ shush | silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'. |
| ~ hush | become quiet or still; fall silent.; "hush my baby!" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| ~ lull, calm down | become quiet or less intensive.; "the fighting lulled for a moment" |
| ~ shout down | silence or overwhelm by shouting. |
| ~ pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hush | become quiet or quieter.; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" |
| ~ gag, muzzle | prevent from speaking out.; "The press was gagged" |
adj. | 4. pent, shut up | closely confined. |
| ~ confined | not free to move about. |
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