keep quiet
Don't say anything
Keep quiet means to remain silent or refrain from speaking.
It can be a command to stop talking: Keep quiet during the test.
More broadly, it means to not reveal information: She kept quiet about what she'd seen.
To keep something quiet is to prevent it from becoming known: They tried to keep the scandal quiet.
- clam upAbruptly stop speaking
- shut upDemand for silence
- put a sock in itDemand for silence
- muteWithout voice or sound
- be silentRefrain from speaking
hush · silence · bite your tongue · non-disclosure · sworn to secrecy · hold your tongue · not a word · taciturnity · guardedness · soundless · concealment · covertness · zip it · listen · secret · omertà · stillness · button it
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
- silencesilent, mute, hush, stillness, muted
- hidinghide, conceal, take cover, hole up, hunker down
- hush commandsshh, shhh, ssh, hush up, be silent
- silence commandshush, shh, shush, shut up, pipe down
- concealmentconceal, hiding, concealing, concealed, hide
keep quietspeak up
Talk louder or opine
speak out · make noise · shout · raise one's voice · yell
keep quietspeak up
Talk louder or opine
tell all · spill the beans · reveal · disclose · blow the whistle
keep quietstand up
Rise to feet
protest · assert oneself · object · complain · rock the boat
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