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silenced

/ ˈɪəԲ /

adjective

  1. (of a clergyman) forbidden to preach or perform his clerical functions

    a silenced priest

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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We will fight — in the courts, in the public square, and in the arena of ideas — for every athlete who’s been silenced, underpaid, or discarded.”

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So long as Latinos remain silenced, ostracized and relegated to the periphery in conversations about the future of this nation, that future remains bleak.

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Did she wake up in the middle of an opportunistic burglary and have to be silenced?

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His second season silenced the critics, but in his third he looked a shadow of himself.

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Wardley silenced critics who questioned his lack of amateur background with a brutal first-round knockout of Frazer Clarke last October, having fought to a draw against the Olympian seven months prior.

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