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dead silences

dead silences is the plural of dead silence.

Meaning of dead silence

Noun

dead silence (usually uncountable, plural dead silences)

  1. (idiomatic, usually) A particularly distinct or awkward silence or absence of response.
    • A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199

Questions about dead silences

What is dead silences the plural of?
Dead silences is the plural of dead silence.

Words near dead silences in the dictionary

  1. dead set against
  2. dead sets
  3. dead shot
  4. dead shots
  5. dead silence
  6. dead silences
  7. dead sleep
  8. dead sleeps
  9. dead soldier
  10. dead soldiers
  11. dead space

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