silencing
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of silence#English|silence
silencing (plural silencings)
- The act by which something is silenced.
- 2003, Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley, Richard Rorty (page 119)
- But these harmonies can be distinguished from silencings in which the content of certain interpretations requires or advocates obliterating the voice of another.
- 2003, Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley, Richard Rorty (page 119)
- (genetics) The prevention of the expression of a gene
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