The phrase "render silent" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to make something or someone completely quiet or speechless. Example: After the teacher asked the students to render silent, there was a peaceful stillness in the classroom. Another example: The sudden thunderstorm rendered the outdoor concert silent as everyone sought shelter.
These pilots are proving the importance of listening in fields where power imbalances between funders and beneficiaries can render silent the end user.
Both the binding of the SIR complex to nucleosomes and the recruitment of silent chromatin to the NE, have been shown to render silent chromatin less accessible to the recombination machinery and to the action of enzymatic probes, such as a bacterial DNA methyltransferase or restriction endonucleases (Gottschling, 1992; Singh and Klar, 1992; Loo and Rine, 1994).
They are rendered silent because they lived in a man's world, written by men, about the feats of men.
It threatens to divide society, the army and the palace.The twilight is rendered silent by draconian lèse-majesté laws.
He still smiles at the memory, a group of fourth to sixth graders rendered silent before he could even say a word.
Tilda Swinton is typically commanding as former stadium-rock diva Marianne Lane, rendered silent by throat surgery, now getting away from it all with her recovering alcoholic boyfriend Paul Matthias Schoenaertss).
At that moment, I was rendered silent, realizing Miller is the bigger person between us.
When they are rendered silent they are also rendered useless, unsure of how to fight The Gentlemen.
Maybe I was just clueless and gutless, rendered silent by society's foolish taboos about speaking candidly about homosexuality, about AIDS and about death itself.
Historian Anton Kaes points to it as an example of "the new verisimilitude [that] rendered silent cinema's former emphasis on the hypnotic gaze and the symbolism of light and shadow, as well as its preference for allegorical characters, anachronistic".
There are still too few of them, but these films, across decades and continents, at least give voice to a conversation that social stigma all too often renders silent.
