Hush
verb
Make (someone) be quiet or stop talking.
The teacher hushed the students before the examination started.
Often appears as...
- hush someone
- hush up
verb
To become quiet or calm.
The room hushed in anticipation of the coming surprise.
Often appears as...
- hush suddenly
- hush quickly
noun
A period of silence or calm.
There was a soothing hush as the snow began to fall.
Often appears as...
- sudden hush
- hush fell
verb
To keep information secret or hidden.
They tried to hush up the scandal to protect their reputation.
Often appears as...
- hush up scandal
- hush up the truth
Usage tips
Idiomatic
verb
Make (someone) be quiet or stop talking.
The teacher hushed the students before the examination started.
Often appears as...
- hush someone
- hush up
verb
To become quiet or calm.
The room hushed in anticipation of the coming surprise.
Often appears as...
- hush suddenly
- hush quickly
noun
A period of silence or calm.
There was a soothing hush as the snow began to fall.
Often appears as...
- sudden hush
- hush fell
verb
To keep information secret or hidden.
They tried to hush up the scandal to protect their reputation.
Often appears as...
- hush up scandal
- hush up the truth
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Command Quiet
Used to immediately stop noise, usually in a soft but firm tone.
The librarian hushed the noisy readers.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Soothing
Parents often use 'hush' gently to comfort and quieten their child.
The mother hushed her crying baby.
Pro Tip 3/3Quick Silence
Can indicate a sudden need for silence, possibly due to an unexpected occurrence.
She hushed the group as footsteps approached.
Pro Tip 1/3Command Quiet
Used to immediately stop noise, usually in a soft but firm tone.
The librarian hushed the noisy readers.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Soothing
Parents often use 'hush' gently to comfort and quieten their child.
The mother hushed her crying baby.
Pro Tip 3/3Quick Silence
Can indicate a sudden need for silence, possibly due to an unexpected occurrence.
She hushed the group as footsteps approached.
Pro Tip 1/3Command Quiet
Used to immediately stop noise, usually in a soft but firm tone.
The librarian hushed the noisy readers.
Pro Tip 2/3Parental Soothing
Parents often use 'hush' gently to comfort and quieten their child.
The mother hushed her crying baby.
Pro Tip 3/3Quick Silence
Can indicate a sudden need for silence, possibly due to an unexpected occurrence.
She hushed the group as footsteps approached.
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Video examples
The political power of...
But when I answered the phone, I was met with a tone that was unlike anything I had ever heard from my mother. My mother's loud. But she spoke in a hush, still, muffled tone that conveyed a sense of sadness. And as she whispered, she said, "Michael,
Video examples
Four sisters in Ancient...
The whip lies ready for his arrival. No one knows who smashed the dish, but Dad will call the undertaker to torture it out of them, if he must. The doorkeeper opens the front door to the house. A hush comes over the anxious slaves.
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Eric Whitacre: Virtual...
rolling toward us, and as the clouds got about halfway over the valley, so help me God, every single animal in that place stopped making noise at the same time. This electric hush, as if they could sense what was about to happen.
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
interactive Safari should you have any questions or any comments talk to us hushed a pacified life on Twitter all right back to our rafter there and that he's a bird of prey will call them Raptors because of what they're able to
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Why are these 32 symbols...
a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world -- a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence.
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Safari Live - Day 352 PIPE...
check watch one point it looks like a carrot court another point so ladies and gentlemen so ladies and gentlemen if you could be able to help me identify what we serve run in the grass fair hushed up Safari
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John Wesley Powell: From...
could be seen at night only during the few hours of deep sleep consequent on hard labor as the roar of the waters been hushed but now the danger is over now the toil has ceased now the gloom
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Claron McFadden: Singing...
So hush little baby, don't you cry. And I opened my eyes, and I saw that she had her eyes closed. And after a moment, she opened her eyes and she looked at me and she said,
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A Reading by J. Patrick...
red kite on a windy day watch the ice caps glisten with crystal magic here the desert whisper hush to eternity let the town leave a small basket of
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Rendezvous With Death PIPE...
out in blissful sleep and hushed awakenings are dear but I have a rendezvous with death at midnight in some flaming town when spring trips
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The political power of...
But when I answered the phone, I was met with a tone that was unlike anything I had ever heard from my mother. My mother's loud. But she spoke in a hush, still, muffled tone that conveyed a sense of sadness. And as she whispered, she said, "Michael,
Video examples
Four sisters in Ancient...
The whip lies ready for his arrival. No one knows who smashed the dish, but Dad will call the undertaker to torture it out of them, if he must. The doorkeeper opens the front door to the house. A hush comes over the anxious slaves.
Video examples
Eric Whitacre: Virtual...
rolling toward us, and as the clouds got about halfway over the valley, so help me God, every single animal in that place stopped making noise at the same time. This electric hush, as if they could sense what was about to happen.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
interactive Safari should you have any questions or any comments talk to us hushed a pacified life on Twitter all right back to our rafter there and that he's a bird of prey will call them Raptors because of what they're able to
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world -- a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 352 PIPE...
check watch one point it looks like a carrot court another point so ladies and gentlemen so ladies and gentlemen if you could be able to help me identify what we serve run in the grass fair hushed up Safari
Video examples
John Wesley Powell: From...
could be seen at night only during the few hours of deep sleep consequent on hard labor as the roar of the waters been hushed but now the danger is over now the toil has ceased now the gloom
Video examples
Claron McFadden: Singing...
So hush little baby, don't you cry. And I opened my eyes, and I saw that she had her eyes closed. And after a moment, she opened her eyes and she looked at me and she said,
Video examples
A Reading by J. Patrick...
red kite on a windy day watch the ice caps glisten with crystal magic here the desert whisper hush to eternity let the town leave a small basket of
Video examples
Rendezvous With Death PIPE...
out in blissful sleep and hushed awakenings are dear but I have a rendezvous with death at midnight in some flaming town when spring trips
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Quote examples
Marilyn Monroe
American Actress
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!
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Fannie Lou Hamer
American Activist
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.
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Tom Hollander
English Actor
People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
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Elliot Perlman
Australian Author
I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.
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Emanuel Ax
Ukrainian Musician
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.
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Sara Teasdale
American Author
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
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Sophocles
Greek Poet
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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Lisa Lopes
American Musician
The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Quote examples
Marilyn Monroe
American Actress
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!
Quote examples
Fannie Lou Hamer
American Activist
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.
Quote examples
Tom Hollander
English Actor
People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
Quote examples
Elliot Perlman
Australian Author
I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.
Quote examples
Emanuel Ax
Ukrainian Musician
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Quote examples
Michio Kaku
American Physicist
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.
Quote examples
Sara Teasdale
American Author
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Quote examples
Sophocles
Greek Poet
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Quote examples
Lisa Lopes
American Musician
The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.
Quote examples
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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