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With this instrument he would still their tracherous voices.

English translation: he would use it to kill them, which would shut them up for good

04:40 Aug 25, 2009
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: With this instrument he would still their tracherous voices.
The untied the ribbon fastener and unroll the pouch flat. The blade gleamed bright and hard, sharp and beautiful in the street light. He imagine its keen edge parting flesh. Paring it from the bone. With this instrument he would still their treacherous voices; he would use it's blade to shape a shining silence.
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Selected answer:he would use it to kill them, which would shut them up for good
Explanation:
Definitely about killing rather than threatening his victims. Stilling somebody's voice means silencing them permanently.
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 22:16
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thank you very much indeed
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4he would use it to kill them, which would shut them up for good
B D Finch
3with this knife's blade, the attacker would keep the victim quiet or shut up
Yasutomo Kanazawa


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
with this instrument he would still their tracherous voices.
with this knife's blade, the attacker would keep the victim quiet or shut up


Explanation:
I think instrument here refers to a knife or a sharp object which has a blade, and the attacker is trying to use this blade to make the victim quiet/shut up or maybe kill him/her because the victim has been disloyal or betrayed this attacker.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 06:16
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
with this instrument he would still their tracherous voices.
he would use it to kill them, which would shut them up for good


Explanation:
Definitely about killing rather than threatening his victims. Stilling somebody's voice means silencing them permanently.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 22:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 84
Grading comment
thank you very much indeed

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell
46 mins
  -> Thanks Rachel

agree  Kim Metzger
8 hrs

agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
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agree  Barbara Wiebking
2 days 13 hrs
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