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умалчиваться

v
stresses
gen. conceal; fail to mention; hold back; hush up; suppress; pass over in silence
inf. be hushed up (Ваня.В)
obs. fall silent
умалчивать v
gen. conceal; dissemble (факт, деталь и т. п.); be silent; keep silent (with o, about); keep something quiet; keep quiet (что-либо); be very reticent about on, something (о чём-либо); not reveal (q3mi4); stay quiet about (напр., о совершенном преступлении Lana Falcon); fail to mention; suppress (to prevent from being published, known etc. • to suppress information); withhold; leave out ("A basic tenet of mine: The media – anywhere – can best be judged by what they leave out. Vancouver's Crisis Pregnancy Centre was recently vandalized. Read/hear about it? I didn't. Did any reader? Oh, the centre is pro-life. Now, if it advocated ... fill in your own blanks." Trevor Lautens, NS News – "О прессе – где угодно – можно судить лучше всего по тому, о чём она умалчивает." ART Vancouver); keep sth. on the down low (о чём-либо • Keep this information on the down low, please Oleg Nikulin); hold a few things back (Taras); say nothing (about); keep quiet about (to say nothing about; to keep secret, о чём-л. • I'd like you to keep quiet about the child's father being in prison)
Gruzovik pass over in silence (impf of умолчать); suppress (impf of умолчать); fail to mention (impf of умолчать)
Gruzovik, obs. fall silent (impf of умолчать)
idiom. draw a discrete veil (over something • The few obituary notices drew a discrete veil over the cause of his demise.Thus public health propaganda emphasizes the virtues of catching cancer at an early stage, when there is some hope of treating it, while drawing a discrete veil over the fact that most of the medical treatments currently availabl e involve devastating the body's immune system in a way which could prove fatal even if the cancer is cured. 4uzhoj)
inf. keep in the dark (Himera); sweep under the rug (keep under one's hat Val_Ships); keep something under one's hat (Val_Ships)
mil. hush up
O&G, sakh. hold back
obs. fall silent; huddle
polit. pass over in silence
умалчиваться
: 29 phrases in 5 subjects
Contextual meaning1
General16
Makarov10
Military lingo1
Proverb1

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