silent treatment
nounDefinitions
A form of communication refusal where one person deliberately ignores or withholds…
A form of communication refusal where one person deliberately ignores or withholds interaction from another, often in order to express anger, disapproval, or to exert control.
- to give someone the silent treatment
- Finally we gave him the silent treatment, and for weeks before he died we neither spoke to him nor did he speak to us.
- We met one woman who had been given the silent treatment by her husband for 40 years. If the silent treatment becomes a longstanding pattern, you lose self-esteem and perspective.
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No curated loop yet for silent treatment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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