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fall silent

fall silent verb: to become quiet.

Verb

fall silent (third-person singular simple present falls silent, present participle falling silent, simple past fell silent, past participle fallen silent)

  1. To become quiet.
    • I've seen the stars fall silent from your eyes / All the sights that I have seen2003, R.E.M., “The Great Beyond”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003

fall silent meaning in Gujarati and Vietnamese

fall silent in Gujarati

fall silent, become calm or quiet
શમવું śamvũ

fall silent in Vietnamese

Translations
ắng lại

Forms of fall silent

third-person singular presentfalls silent
present participlefalling silent
pastfell silent
past participlefallen silent

Questions about fall silent

What does fall silent mean?
Fall silent means to become quiet.
What is fall silent in Gujarati?
Fall silent in Gujarati is શમવું (śamvũ). See Fall silent meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is fall silent?
Fall silent is a verb.
What is the past tense of fall silent?
The past tense of fall silent is fell silent.

Words near fall silent in the dictionary

  1. Fall River County
  2. Fall River Mills
  3. fall seven times, stand up eight
  4. fall short
  5. fall sick
  6. fall silent
  7. fall streak
  8. fall streaks
  9. fall supper
  10. fall suppers
  11. fall through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fall silent (page history and authors); શમવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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