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verb

Hush v. t. (past & past part. hushed; pres. part. hushing)

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."

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. "With thou, then, Hush my cares?" "And hush'd my deepest grief of all."

To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up."

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. "Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill." "But all these strangers' presence every one did hush."

adjective

hushed adj.

Having the sound level reduced; especially used of the noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones.

Synonyms: muted.

Having relatively little noise; as, a hushed church.

Synonyms: quiet.

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Etymology of 'Hushed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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