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silent treatment

A form of social sanction that consists of ignoring a particular individual, neither speaking to that person nor responding to his or her words.
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Finally we gave him the silent treatment, and for weeks before he died we neither spoke to him nor did he speak to us.

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Submitted on January 23, 2019

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tratamiento silencioso

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