(v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
(v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
(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.
(n.) Stillness; silence; quiet.
(a.) Silent; quiet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
(2) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(3) But Britain’s hushed response in a string of cases showed that despite the lip service to human rights they were “not one of our top priorities … the prosperity agenda is further up the list”, as a top official conceded of foreign policy in general.
(4) It’s kind of kept under the radar, hushed, so it needs to be talked about.” People needed to know, she added, that abortion restrictions had real victims.
(5) I suppose people do need to talk about the Troubles, but they don’t need to do it in such a hushed manner.
(6) Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar's name is mentioned in hushed tones among most Yemenis, and he rarely appears in public.
(7) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.
(8) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
(9) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(10) But he was carried off and a kind of hush descended."
(11) Back at the hotel for the photo shoot, a great hush falls over the suite.
(12) A hush descends whenever we hear the voice of Lorraine, whose resentment towards her mother remains palpable.
(13) In a front-page comment piece, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote: "Instead of hushing up the blunder, [gag orders] merely shine a spotlight on it.
(14) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(15) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
(16) Does a lullaby have to be traditional, or do you find yourself making it up as you go, singing original lyrics to the tune of Hush Little Baby ?
(17) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
(18) Rather than a bribe, Ecclestone's defence team claims the $44m payments were hush money.
(19) He is hush-hush about how the portraits will turn out, partly because he hasn’t finished them and partly because he wants to save the big reveal for TV and an accompanying exhibition .
(20) From 12.02pm, they hushed for four and a half minutes – one for each hour Brown was left lying uncovered on Canfield Drive in the midday heat after being shot, a situation which enraged his friends and family.
Shush
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper's Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights.
(2) So, as it stands, this year's carnival of football thankfully won't be soundtracked by the shushing rattle of thousands of caxirola.
(3) Iran meanwhile has Susa, now the delightfully named Shush, administrative centre of Shush Country, which has an acropolis – a sure sign of ancient city status – that is carbon-dated to around 4,200BC, and evidence of permanent homemaking going back another 800 years.
(4) And they have internet, and they have librarians who are delights, and they have “no-shushing” signs.
(5) While we are being gently and firmly shushed, I break away and stride on to the stage.
(6) Updated at 10.44pm BST 9.59pm BST Women's 100m final - race A few excited cheers break out, which are quickly shushed.
(7) Speaker Bercow shushes them, 'punning' about how in tennis you get new balls after seven games (?)
(8) Savile continued: "If I was going to sue anybody – which I never actually got round to actually suing because they all run away and say 'shush pay him up' – we go not to the local court, we go to the Old Bailey 'cos my people can book time in the Old Bailey so my legal people are ready and waiting.
(9) There will be another period of mourning in which any talk of doing something about just how many guns we have will be shushed by conservatives eager to not politicize the deaths of some new number of innocents .
(10) The Russian journalist was shushed quiet by another reporter in the White House press room when attempting to ask a follow-up question.
(11) The communal exhilaration that had been going for 2,500 years – since the Greeks first honoured Dionysus with noisy songs about goats – was finally and comprehensively shushed.
(12) Everyone goes on about this ‘shush’ cliche, but it’s still true that it’s really nice to go into a place with no music and where people are just quietly sitting.
(13) Much as people like to tell Chewlsay that they ain't got no 'isto-wee, there's plenty of the stuff between them and Liverpool, especially where Jose Mourinho is concerned, be it shushing Liverpool supporters, complaining about ghost goals, conveniently forgetting that Petr Cech would have been sent off if the referee hadn't played an advantage or Robert Huth's False Nine stint.
(14) Finally inside the mausoleum (having been sent back to the top of Red Square) I was respectfully stomping the snow off my shoes when I was violently shushed by a guard.
(15) My five-year-old daughter would shush me and try to hide whenever she saw a soldier.
(16) The striker pressed a finger to his lips, shushing the crowd, but neither they nor their team were in any mood to back down.
(17) 2.30am BST Teams coming out now... Now might be a good time to say your last loving words to the people you'll be shushing aggressively for the next couple of hours.
(18) Mourinho has more history than most with Liverpool – his battles with Rafael Benítez , the shushing of the fans , the continuous chat about the ghost goal – and, having won six and lost just one of his eight previous league meetings with the Merseyside club, he has beaten them more than most.
(19) She accuses him of “regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way”, and says he once put his hand on her and pulled down her arm “to shush her during a live telecast”.
(20) Once they were all inside, he closed the door softly, then shushed the tourists as they clustered by the wall.