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Hushed   /həʃt/   Listen
Hushed

adjective
1.
In a softened tone.  Synonyms: muted, quiet, subdued.  "Muted trumpets" , "A subdued whisper" , "A quiet reprimand"


Hush

verb
(past & past part. hushed; pres. part. hushing)
1.
Become quiet or still; fall silent.
2.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still.
3.
Become quiet or quieter.  Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten.
4.
Wash by removing particles.
5.
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals.



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"Hushed" Quotes from Famous Books



... could hear the childish prattle of the children and the crooning of Naudin as she hushed, with swaying body, ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... clustered shaft, and all the endless intricacies of Gothic architecture; exuberant with profusely decorated spandrils, sculptured bosses, light flying buttresses, and delicate fan-like tracery. How beautiful and hushed is all around! Now the stillness is broken by approaching footsteps, and the white-robed train of priests and choristers is seen advancing along the aisle, the organ uttering its impressive modulations to soothe the heart, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... kingly chief's despite, When he who led the Greeks to fight Was in the bath hewn down. And now the offspring of the race Stands in the third, the saviour's place, To save—or to consume? O whither, ere it be fulfilled, Ere its fierce blast be hushed and stilled, Shall ...
— The House of Atreus • AEschylus
... some unusual night sightings in New Mexico. The story had been hushed up, but he had learned some details from a ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... succeeded the discharge of Joe's gun, after the tremendous report died away, in successive reverberations up and down the river, and over the low wood land opposite. The owls and wolves were hushed; and as the watchful sentinels cast their eyes over the snow, on which the calm rays of the moon rested in repose, there was not the least indication of the ...
— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones


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