Thesaurus:stop talking
THESAURUS | stop talking |
English
Synonyms
- belt up
- button it
- button one's lip
- can it
- clam up
- cork it
- dummy up
- hush down
- hush one's mouth
- pipe down
- put a lid on it
- put a sock in it
- shaddap
- shut it
- shut one's face
- shut one's gob
- shut one's mouth
- shut one's pie hole
- shut one's trap
- shut up
- stick a sock in it
- stuff a sock in it
- swie
- wind one's neck in
- zip it
- zip one's lip
Antonyms
- speak [WS]
Hypernyms
- make silent [WS]
Various
- bite one's lip
- bite one's tongue
- button one's lip
- button up one's lip
- fall silent
- hold one's peace
- hold one's tongue
- hush up
- hush
- hush down
- keep mum
- keep one's mouth shut
- keep one's lips sealed
- keep shtum
- quiet down
- quieten down
See also
- Thesaurus:be quiet
- Thesaurus:mouth
Further reading
- “585. taciturnity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “shut up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.