save one's breath to cool one's porridge
zip one's lip
save one's breath
hold one's peace
sing small
clam up
belt up
close up
shut up
be quiet
keep mum
button up
dummy up
put a sock in it
put a lid on it
wind one's neck in
shut it
shut one's gob
shut one's trap
shut one's mouth
shut one's face
discretion is the better part of valour
unshushable
pipe down
gag
nize
whist
sulk
button one's lip
button it
shush
burke
choops
bite one's tongue
hush
quieten
silence
bite one's lip
cork it
hush one's mouth
unspeakingly
well
wheesh
diam
quiet
hush up
obmutescence
unmurmuring
keep quiet
fall silent
hush down
yush
open one's big mouth
put up or shut up
knock it off
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
shusher
abjure
unmind
shaddap
turn a deaf ear
er
nonspeak
tut
preach in the desert
blah blah blah
la la la
belay
button
voices off
unmincing
talk cock
shame
dry up
let me see
foreclose
white noise
deaf
mum
plead the Fifth
drop the topic
bottle it
antiverbal
chit-chat
incessantly
shh
offhold
unsilence
shushy
cut off

English words for 'To refrain from speech where it is futile or not wanted; to shut up.'

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