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[ adjective ] reduced to silence

Examples

"the silenced crowd waited expectantly"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

The last two writers introduce strong political bias into their works , and not unlike the union leaders that we will discuss soon , see folklore as a reservoir of protest by a downtrodden and publically silenced mass .

Related terms

unsilenced suppressed

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