Silencing : other_cos-45.4












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[10 : Something ----s somebody ]



NP (Speaker) V () PP[by] (Agent) PP[for] (Explanation) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Speaker) V () CNI (Agent) PP[with] (Means)
NP (Agent) V () Sub (Means) NP (Speaker)
NP (Agent) V () PP[with] (Means) NP (Speaker) PP[within] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () PP[to] (Result) NP (Speaker)
NP (Speaker) V () PP[by] (Agent) Sub (Time)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Means) NP (Speaker)
NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient) NP (Agent) V () NP (Speaker)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Expressor)
NP (Agent) V () NP.patient (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () NP (Result) ADJ ()
NP (Patient) V () ADV-Middle ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument) NP (Agent) V () PPing[by] (Means) NP (Speaker)
NP (Agent) V () PP[with] (Means) NP (Speaker)
NP.patient (Patient) V () NP (Speaker) V () CNI (Agent)
NP (Expressor) V () CNI (Agent)


Examples from WordNet


Please silence the children in the church!



Examples from VerbNet


The clothes dried wrinkled.
The clothes dried.
Bill dried the clothes with a hairdryer.
The hairdryer dried the clothes.
The cotton clothes dried easily.
Bill dried the clothes.



Examples from SemCor


`` Shut_up.
Next to the Blackwells, Titus had owned the island most, and she and Adelia had often stood in front of him, silenced by his terrible years- a scanty man with a thin beard and very deep-set blue eyes like a mariner, more aged than possible.
To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President_Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August:
`` Hush'', said Uncle_Randolph, smiling,`` or I 'll give you another black_eye''.
The slugs flattened ten tires and silenced one of the inboard engines; the plane slowed to a halt.
Recent statements by well-known scientists regarding the destructive power of the newest nuclear bombs and the deadly fall-outs should be sufficient to still the voices of those who advocate nuclear warfare instead of negotiations.
Mike silenced them.