'Silenced' in the Bible

“He guards the feet of His godly (faithful) ones,But the wicked ones are silenced and perish in darkness;For a man shall not prevail by might.

Let the lying lips be mute,Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteousWith pride and contempt.

Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced (muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.

for the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets [the prophecy is under the speaker’s control, and he can stop speaking];

As the truth of Christ is in me, my boast [of independence] will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia (southern Greece).