elhallgat

• to keep back, to keep from, to keep sg quiet

• to withhold sg from sy

• reticence

• to confute, to floor, to gag, to hush, to muzzle, to put down, to shush, to shut up, to silence, to suppress

• tongue-tied

• to cork sy up, to put sy to silence, to put the extinguisher on sy, to reduce sy to silence

• to gag the press