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dead silence

noun

Definitions

  1. A particularly distinct or awkward silence or absence of response.

    • The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.
    • At seven minutes past four, while a Bach sonata was purling under the din of the crowd, the President's reaching hand was struck aside, and a man lurched forward. Two shots cracked sharply. There was a moment of dead silence.

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