1 without speaking:
They marched silently through the streets.
2 without making any or much sound:
She crept silently out of the room. * The car rolled silently downhill.
3 without using words or sounds to express sth:
She prayed silently. * He silently agreed with much of what she had said.
IDIOMS
sit / stand silently by to do or say nothing to help sb or deal with a difficult situation:
We can't sit silently by and let them arrest him!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for silently is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is silently a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, silently is tagged as adverb.
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