To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
Alleviation; abatement; check.
To make (someone or something) silent.
To repress the expression of something.
To suppress criticism, etc.
To block gene expression.
To murder.
Be silent.
deadly silence
The act of refraining from speaking.
The absence of any sound.