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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hushed \hushed\ (h[u^]sht), adj.
1. having the sound level reduced; -- especially used of the
noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones.
Syn: muted.
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2. having relatively little noise; as, a hushed church.
Syn: quiet.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hushed
adj : in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a
subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" [syn: muted, subdued,
quiet]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "hushed":
at rest, calm, chastened, cloistered, closet, confidential,
constrained, controlled, cool, dwindling, ebbing, echoless,
even-tenored, halcyon, hush as death, impassive, in control,
in hand, inaudible, inside, isolated, limited, moldering, mousy,
noiseless, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quelled,
quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting,
restrained, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, silent,
smooth, softened, soundless, stable, still, still as death,
stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subaudible, subdued, subsiding,
tempered, tranquil, unagitated, unarticulated, undisturbed,
unhearable, unmoved, unperturbed, unpronounced, unruffled,
unsounded, unstirring, untroubled, unuttered, unvocalized,
unvoiced, waning, whist
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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