The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
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To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
With thou, then, Hush my cares?
--Otway.And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
--Tennyson.To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. ``This matter is hushed up.''
--Pope.
Usage examples of "to hush up".
I think we've convinced her to hush up and listen, but that child's silences make me nervous.
Moreover, he reckoned much on the interest of the Danglars to hush up the rumor of their own misadventures.
Reluctant to admit he'd been cuckolded and that his impregnable security system had been violated, Elmer had tried to hush up last night's escapade.
It's a job for the serious fraud people, though Sir Ivan wants to hush up the whole thing and won't call them in, and of course it wouldn't save the brewery if he did.
Once they start listening to Luke, they'll realize they've been harbouring a double agent for years - but that may make them even more concerned to hush up the whole thing.
I would laugh my head off every time I heard it, and told it every time I had the chance, till folks begun to ask me to hush up about it.
Just then Donna had come storming in from the kitchen and ordered them all to hush up, or else.