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Synonyms for be quiet
be qui·et
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Princeton's WordNet
close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mumverb
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
"The children shut up when their father approached"
Synonyms:
block, shut away, belt up, hush, button up, dummy, impede, lock away, lock up, hush up, still, dummy up, clam up, close up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, put away, lock in, fold, obturate, lock, shut down, quieten, shut up, jam, silence, occlude
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#390 | still | |
#735 | close | |
#1662 | block | |
#3411 | lock | |
#5259 | jam | |
#6423 | fold | |
#6644 | silence | |
#13245 | dummy | |
#19241 | hush | |
#29400 | impede | |
#39730 | obstruct | |
#205593 | occlude | |
#243815 | quieten |
How to use be quiet in a sentence?
I was laying down. I realized it was quiet and everybody was down, and I didn’t know where he was, i felt as though the next shot -- I knew the next shot, he was just going to shoot me in the head, because that was what he was doing.
It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.
I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of my vineyard, and when I miss the sound and the fury, I take refuge in my garage and turn the key in the ignition of my Miura.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Never. This is where I want to be. I made that clear, more so the bad days I'm talking about, just the negativity of taking the heat throughout social media, and all of that stuff. ... I'm a quiet dude when it comes to social media and stuff like that. Just to be able to sit there and take all of the shots and stuff like that, it is what it is.
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