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unsilence

unsilence verb: to make no longer silent; to provide with a voice.

Verb

unsilence (third-person singular simple present unsilences, present participle unsilencing, simple past and past participle unsilenced)

  1. (transitive) To make no longer silent; to provide with a voice.
  2. (transitive) To activate (a dormant or repressed gene).

Forms of unsilence

third-person singular presentunsilences
present participleunsilencing
past participleunsilenced
pastunsilenced

Origin of unsilence

From un- + silence.

Questions about unsilence

What does unsilence mean?
Unsilence means to make no longer silent; to provide with a voice.
What part of speech is unsilence?
Unsilence is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsilence?
The past tense of unsilence is unsilenced.

Words near unsilence in the dictionary

  1. unsignifying
  2. unsigning
  3. unsignposted
  4. unsigns
  5. unsiker
  6. unsilence
  7. unsilenceable
  8. unsilenceably
  9. unsilenced
  10. unsilences
  11. unsilencing

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