Definition of hush Hush
/hʌˈʃ/ - [hush] - hush
We found 20 definitions of hush from 8 different sources.
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What does hush mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: hushes |
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| hush - (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" | ||
| stillness, still | ||
| quiet, silence the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" | ||
| poesy, poetry, verse literature in metrical form | ||
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| hush - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" | ||
| quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up | ||
| louden cause to become loud | ||
| stamp down, conquer, curb, inhibit, suppress, subdue overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" | ||
| sleek over, gloss over, hush up, whitewash treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly | ||
| shush silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | ||
| calm down, lull become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" | ||
| shout down silence or overwhelm by shouting | ||
| muzzle, gag fit with a muzzle; "muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers" | ||
| hush - run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | ||
| irrigate, water supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound" | ||
| mining, excavation the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | ||
| hush - wash by removing particles; "Wash ores" | ||
| lave, wash wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" | ||
| mining, excavation the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | ||
| hush - become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!" | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| hush - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" | ||
| quieten, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down | ||
| louden cause to become loud | ||
| hush up, silence, quieten, shut up, still, hush keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power" | ||
| change intensity increase or decrease in intensity | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hush (v. t.)
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. - hush (v. t.)
To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. - hush (v. i.)
To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise. - hush (n.)
Stillness; silence; quiet. - hush (a.)
Silent; quiet.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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hush
To cause to be quiet or not talk.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hush
hush, interj. or imper. silence! be still!—adj. silent: quiet.—v.t. to make quiet: (min.) to clear off soil, &c., overlying the bed-rock.—ns. Hush′aby, a lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep; Hush′-mon′ey, money given as a bribe to hush or make one keep silent.—Hush up, to stifle, suppress: to be silent. [Imit. Cf. hist and whist.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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hush
A name of the lump-fish, denoting the female.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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hush
Hush the cull; murder the fellow.
