All clam up synonyms

verb clam up

• compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
• console — If you console someone who is unhappy about something, you try to make them feel more cheerful.
• ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
• becalm — to calm down
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
• gratify — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
• soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
• squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• tranquilize — calm sb with drugs
• slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• shush — to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.
• settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• tongue-tie — impeded motion of the tongue caused especially by shortness of the frenum, which binds it to the floor of the mouth.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
• stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• constipate — to cause constipation in
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hold out — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hold out on — to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information
• keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• keep under wraps — not reveal
• button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
• fix up — Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
• shut up — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.