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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
hush
n 1: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn:
hush, stillness, still]
v 1: become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"
2: cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children
in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still,
shut up, hush up] [ant: louden]
3: become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the
speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce,
quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden]
4: wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"
5: run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the
underlying strata and valuable minerals
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hush \Hush\, n.
Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night."
--Byron.
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Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the
disclosure of facts. --Swift.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hush \Hush\, a.
Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hush \Hush\ (h[u^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed (h[u^]sht);
p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.] [OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of
imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch
quick, make haste, be silent.]
1. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress
the noise or clamor of.
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My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
--Shak.
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2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
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With thou, then,
Hush my cares? --Otway.
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And hush'd my deepest grief of all. --Tennyson.
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To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to
keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." --Pope.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hush \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.
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Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. --Keble.
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But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.
--Spenser.
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Thesaurus Results for hush:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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