Meaning of dead silence | Babel Free

Definitions

A particularly notable/awkward silence or absence of response.

idiomatic, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.”

“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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