Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To make no longer silent; to provide with a voice.

  2. (transitive)To activate (a dormant or repressed gene).

Origin

From un- + silence.

From un- + silence.

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Forms

unsilences, unsilencing, unsilenced, unsilenced
Base formunsilence · to unsilence
3rd person singularunsilences
Present participleunsilencing
Past simpleunsilenced
Past participleunsilenced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyunsilence
he, she, itunsilences

Past simpleLesson

all personsunsilenced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave unsilenced
he, she, ithas unsilenced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill unsilence

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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