Synonyms and related words :
answer, answer conclusively, argue down, asphyxiate, ataraxia, ataraxy, blow to pieces, blow up, blunt, bottle up, brain, brevity, briefness, bring down, brusqueness, burn to death, calm, calmness, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, composure, conciseness, confound, confute, contemplation, contradict, controvert, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, curtains, curtness, cut down, cut to pieces, damp, damp down, dampen, deaden, deal a deathblow, decease, deck, defeat, deflate, demise, demolish, deny, disarm, disintegrate, dismiss, dispose of, dissolution, drop, drown, dumb, dumbfound, dumbness, economy of words, emasculate, enchain, extinguish, fell, finish, floor, frag, gag, give the quietus, gun down, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hold down, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, hush, hush-hush, imperturbability, incinerate, inhibit, jugulate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knock out, laconicalness, laconism, lapidate, lay low, lucid stillness, lull, manacle, marmoreal repose, mitigate, mollify, muffle, mute, muteness, muzzle, nirvana, noiselessness, nonplus, obmutescence, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, overset, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pacify, paralyze, parry, passing, pauciloquy, peace, peacefulness, pistol, placidity, placidness, poleax, pour water on, propitiate, prostrate, put down, put out, put to silence, quash, quell, quench, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quieten, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, rebut, reduce to silence, refute, repose, repress, rest, restfulness, restrain, reticence, riddle, satori, secretiveness, secretness, send flying, serenity, settle, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shortness, shotgun, shush, shut down on, shut off, shut up, silken repose, sit down on, sit on, sleep, slumber, smash, smash all opposition, smother, snuff out, soft-pedal, soothe, soundlessness, sparingness of words, speechlessness, squash, squelch, stab to death, stamp out, stanch, stifle, still, stillness, stone, stone to death, strangle, strike dead, strike dumb, stultify, subdue, subvert, suffocate, suppress, surmount, taciturnity, temper, terseness, throttle, trample out, trample underfoot, tranquillity, trip, trip up, truss up, uncommunicativeness, undermine, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, upset, vaporize, wise passiveness, wordlessness