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SILENT TREATMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does silent treatment mean?

• SILENT TREATMENT (noun)
The noun SILENT TREATMENT has 1 sense:

1. an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know

Familiarity information: SILENT TREATMENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SILENT TREATMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An aloof refusal to speak to someone you know

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("silent treatment" is a kind of...):

rebuff; slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))

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