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silencings

silencings is the plural of silencing.

Meaning of silencing

Noun

silencing (plural silencings)

  1. The act by which something is silenced.
    • But these harmonies can be distinguished from silencings in which the content of certain interpretations requires or advocates obliterating the voice of another.2003, Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley, Richard Rorty, page 119
  2. The prevention of the expression of a gene

Questions about silencings

What is silencings the plural of?
Silencings is the plural of silencing.

Words near silencings in the dictionary

  1. silenced
  2. silencer
  3. silencers
  4. silences
  5. silencing
  6. silencings
  7. silency
  8. silene
  9. sileneoside
  10. silenes
  11. sileni

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