Thesaurus:stop talking

Thesaurus

stop talking

English

Verb

Sense: stop talking

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 cake hole
• shut one's face
• shut one's gob
• shut one's head
• shut one's mouth
• shut one's pie hole
• shut one's trap
• shut one's yap
• shut the front door
• shut up
• STFU
• stick a sock in it
• stuff a sock in it
• wind one's neck in
• zip it
• zip one's lip

Antonyms

• speak    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• make silent    [⇒ thesaurus]

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
• settle 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.