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 Definitions of Hush  [ʌʃ]  

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Definition of 'Hush' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (interj.) hush
(used as a command to be silent or quiet.)

2. (v.i.) hush
to become or be silent or quiet.

3. (v.t.) hush
to make silent; silence.

4.  hush
to suppress mention of; keep concealed (often fol. by up):
to hush up a scandal.

5.  hush
to calm, quiet, or allay:
to hush someone's fears.

6. (n.) hush
silence or quiet, esp. after noise; stillness.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; appar. back formation from hushtwhist2 (ME huissht), the -t being taken for ptp. suffix)

Definition of 'Hush' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) hush, stillness, still
(poetic) tranquil silence
"the still of the night"

2. (verb) hush
become quiet or still; fall silent
"hush my baby!"

3. (verb) hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up
cause to be quiet or not talk
"Please silence the children in the church!"

4. (verb) quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down
become quiet or quieter
"The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

5. (verb) hush
wash by removing particles
"Wash ores"

6. (verb) hush
run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals


Definition of 'Hush' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (interjection) hush
used to tell sb gently to be quiet
Hush! It's time to go to sleep.


Definition of 'Hush' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Hush
silent; quiet

2. (noun) Hush
stillness; silence; quiet

3. (verb) Hush
to still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of

4. (verb) Hush
to appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe

5. (verb) Hush
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


Translation of 'Hush' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: be quiet; silence
Hush! Don't wake the baby.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sjuut Arabic flag Arabic: يُسْكِت، يُهَدِّئ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: тихо!
Brazilian flag Brazilian: silêncio! Czech flag Czech: pst! German flag German: still!
Danish flag Danish: stille! tys! Greek flag Greek: σιωπή! (επιφ.) Spanish flag Spanish: ¡silencio!
Estonian flag Estonian: tasa! Farsi flag Farsi: هيس Finnish flag Finnish: hys
French flag French: chut! Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶׁקֶט Hindi flag Hindi: चुप हो जाना
Croatian flag Croatian: pst! mir! Hungarian flag Hungarian: pszt! Indonesian flag Indonesian: hus! Ssst!
Icelandic flag Icelandic: suss!þögn! Italian flag Italian: zitto!, silenzio! Japanese flag Japanese: しっ
Korean flag Korean: 조용히! Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ša! Latvian flag Latvian: klusu!
Malay flag Malay: syh! Dutch flag Dutch: Stil! Norwegian flag Norwegian: hysj!; tyss!; stille!
Polish flag Polish: cicho Persian flag Persian: هيس Pashto flag Pashto: کرارول
Portuguese flag Portuguese: caluda! Romanian flag Romanian: sst! Russian flag Russian: тише!, молчите!
Slovak flag Slovak: pst! Slovenian flag Slovenian: pst! Serbian flag Serbian: pst
Swedish flag Swedish: hyssj!, sch! Thai flag Thai: คำออกเสียงเพื่อขอให้เงียบ Turkish flag Turkish: Sus!; Sesini kes!
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 噓!別作聲! Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: мовчати Urdu flag Urdu: چپ رہو، چپ ہو جاؤ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: Im nào Chinese flag Chinese: 嘘!别作声!安静!

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