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11hush — hush·a·by; hush·ful; hush; hush·ful·ly; …
12Hush — Hush, a. Silent; quiet. Hush as death. Shak. [1913 Webster] …
13hush — [hush] vt. [ME huschen < huscht, quiet (mistaken as pp.): of echoic orig.] 1. to stop from making noise; make quiet or silent 2. to soothe; calm; lull vi. to stop making noise; be or become quiet or silent adj. Archaic silent; hushed n.… …
14hush up — hush (someone) up to not let someone talk about something. She knew about the defects, and company officials tried to hush her up …
15hush up — hush (something) up to not let something become known. She could have died ten years ago, and the news was hushed up. They made a great effort to hush things up and maintain order …
16hush — [n] quiet calm, lull, peace, peacefulness, quietude, silence, still, stillness, tranquility; concept 65 Ant. clamor, yelling hush [v] attempt to make quiet burke, choke, gag, muffle, mute, muzzle, quiet, quieten, shush*, shut up, silence, stifle …
17hush — ► VERB 1) make or become quiet. 2) (hush up) suppress public mention of. ► NOUN ▪ a silence. ORIGIN from obsolete husht «silent», «be quiet!» …
18hush — index allay, lull (noun), lull (verb), moderate (temper), mollify, peace, placate, repress …
19hush up — index hide, suppress, withhold Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
20hush up — [v] keep secret burke, conceal, cover, cover up, keep dark, sit on, smother, squash, stifle, suppress; concept 266 Ant. reveal, tell …
