'Hush' definitions:
Definition of 'hush'
From: WordNet
noun
verb
Become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"
verb
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]
verb
Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden]
verb
Wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"
verb
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Definition of 'Hush'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. [1913 Webster]
- With thou, then, Hush my cares? --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hush'
From: GCIDE
- Hush \Hush\, n. Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night." --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hush'
From: GCIDE
- Hush \Hush\, a. Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hush'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hush'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allay,
- appease,
- assibilate,
- assibilation,
- awful silence,
- black out,
- buzz,
- calm,
- calm down,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- compose,
- conceal,
- cool,
- cover up,
- cradle,
- dead,
- dead of night,
- deathlike silence,
- dulcify,
- dumbfound,
- ease,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescing,
- even out,
- fall silent,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- fizzling,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- gag,
- gentle,
- golden silence,
- hide,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush of night,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- hushing,
- inaudibility,
- keep quiet,
- kill,
- lisp,
- lucid stillness,
- lull,
- mollify,
- muffle,
- mum,
- mute,
- muzzle,
- noiseless,
- noiselessness,
- pacify,
- peace,
- pipe down,
- placate,
- pour balm into,
- put to silence,
- quash,
- quell,
- quiesce,
- quiescence,
- quiet,
- quiet down,
- quieten,
- quietness,
- quietude,
- repress,
- rest,
- rhonchus,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shush,
- shushing,
- shut down on,
- shut up,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigmatism,
- silence,
- silent,
- silentness,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sit on,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- smother,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- solemn silence,
- soothe,
- soundless,
- soundlessness,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squish,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stifle,
- still,
- stillness,
- stilly,
- strike dumb,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- swish,
- tacitness,
- taciturnity,
- throttle,
- tomblike silence,
- tranquilize,
- tranquillity,
- wheeze,
- whish,
- whisht,
- whisper,
- whist,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- zip