Usually means: Withholding communication as emotional punishment.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word silent treatment:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. silent treatment, the silent treatment: Merriam-Webster
  2. the silent treatment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silent treatment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silent treatment: Vocabulary.com
  5. silent treatment: Wiktionary
  6. silent treatment: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. silent treatment: Dictionary.com
  8. Silent Treatment (Highasakite album), Silent Treatment (The Bled album), Silent Treatment (song), Silent treatment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. silent treatment: Rhymezone
  10. silent treatment: FreeDictionary.org
  11. silent treatment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. silent treatment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. silent treatment: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See silent_treatments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (silent treatment)

noun:  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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