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silencer

noun as in soft pedal

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Gaga's featured in it, looking glam and wielding her weapon of choice: a handgun with a silencer.

Ibrahim was opening the door when he was shot with a silencer-equipped weapon.

And it seems no one heard a sound, leading to the presumption that the killer—or killers—used a silencer.

Three of the four had driven from Sweden into Denmark armed with a machine gun with silencer and a pistol.

He has loaded his Maxim (no Silencer attached), taken careful aim, and—bang!

Dawson's eyes saw the revolver with the silencer fitted to the barrel.

An automatic equipped with a flash light and a silencer put a bullet into his leg while he was looking for you in the cellar.

Special precautions must be taken against that vilest of all inventions of diabolical ingenuity—the Maxim "silencer."

The mere possession of any kind of "silencer" should constitute a most serious criminal offence.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to silencer, such as: damper, muffler, mute pedal, noise queller, sordine, and sordino.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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