Definition of "silencing" [silencing]

• Present participle of silence. (verb)

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• "Bill should know that such an exercise in silencing is anathema to the critical educator."
• "The proponent of this practice, Bill Bruce, an animal mamager from Calgary Alberta, believes in silencing critics."
• "“They would have been interested in silencing any witnesses to technological theft, not destruction of a random civilian ship on the edge of inhabited space.”"