Crossword-Solution: SILENCES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SILENCES | anagram | LICENSES |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SILENCES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Uses a muffler | 1 answer |
| They may speak volumes | 1 answer |
| They may be deafening | 1 answer |
| Stops from talking | 1 answer |
| Rests, in music | 1 answer |
| Puts a muzzle on | 1 answer |
| Ends, as objections | 1 answer |
| Conversation breaks | 1 answer |
| Shushes | 3 answers |
| Quiet times | 4 answers |
| Muzzles | 4 answers |
| Hushes | 5 answers |
| Puts to rest | 5 answers |
| Gags | 6 answers |
| Puts a lid on | 6 answers |
| Represses | 6 answers |
| Stills. | 8 answers |
| Quiets | 12 answers |
| Deafening | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SILENCES (5)
Every back, every face, every head said “resignation.” Often there were long silences, when you could hear nothing but the crackling of the soft coal in the stove and the muffled cough of one of the sick girls.
The sailor, having made sure that Paulvitch had departed, returned to the forecastle, where he hid away his booty and turned into his bunk, while in the cabin that had belonged to the Russian there ticked on and on through the silences of the night the little mechanism in the small black box which held for the unconscious sleepers upon the ill-starred Kincaid the coming vengeance of the thwarted Russian.
When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, but git stuck and don’t see no way, and before you can pull your mind together and _do_ something, that silence has got in and spread itself and done the business.
Hence, all my Flatland friends—when I talk to them about the unrecognized Dimension which is somehow visible in a Line—say, ‘Ah, you mean _brightness_’: and when I reply, ‘No, I mean a real Dimension,’ they at once retort, ‘Then measure it, or tell us in what direction it extends’; and this silences me, for I can do neither.
Throughout the morning her father and mother heard her about the work of getting dinner, with certain silences which represented the moments when she stopped and stood stock-still, and then, readjusting her burden, forced herself forward under it again.
Quotes with SILENCES (3)
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1964–2025).