(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.
Tut
Definition:
() Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
(n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
(n.) A hassock.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would later tut-tut about this, as an error of judgment, and as a cause of relief to him that he was outbid.
(2) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
(3) Menogaril (TUT-7) is a novel antitumor antibiotic belonging to anthracyclines.
(4) Shorter operative time and less post-operative bleeding were found in the TUT group, which included 3 failures.
(5) The chorus of tut-tutting reached such a volume – from small-town gossip to high politics – that her friends felt duty bound to intervene.
(6) In mouse L 1210 leukemia system, antitumor activity of TUT-7 administered orally was as good as that by i.v.
(7) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(8) Their successors tut at Cameron’s talk of swarms.
(9) Fantasy fancies Recent discussion of Kristen Stewart , the actor whose mother may or may not have confirmed her bisexuality, has been accompanied by clapping and tutting – but not a lot of self-examination.
(10) routes, were better than that of adriamycin administered i.v.. TUT-7 showed antitumor activities against various mouse tumors (L 1210 leukemia, P 388 leukemia, colon 38 adenocarcinoma, B 16 melanoma), LX-1 human tumor xenografts, and Yoshida sarcoma in rat.
(11) It was like trying to get into King Tut’s Tomb, downloading five apps to access the fucking thing.” The particular structure of the film, she said – one scene in the final reel especially – had her weeping with nerves as to whether she would be able to manage such extended sequence without recourse to easy edits.
(12) The antitumor activity of TUT-7, a new anthracycline compound, was compared to that of adriamycin in the screening system with rat ascites hepatomas.
(13) In some quarters, Celebgate prompted hand-wringing and tut-tutting about contemporary mores from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
(14) You know how frustrating it is when you put a cartridge in your printer, and it tuts at you about “not an approved part”, after which, printing becomes even more of a lottery than usual?
(15) If you are lucky, he might even tut at you for joining the wrong queue (it's a confusing system, OK, Mr Katsouris?
(16) TU3 was as effective as TUT-cocktail in inhibition of PHA response and CTL generation but unlike TUT spared NK effectors.
(17) Enter, tutting, Gillian Anderson , an Arctic roll in a pencil skirt.
(18) But more than anything, it's about the sense of entitlement, the presupposition that an entire page of a national newspaper should be given over to the sexual gratification of men, and we should tut and tolerate and turn the other cheek while the Sun's anti-rape campaign languishes in the women's section, as our problem.
(19) When it didn't run on time, I was shouted at, tutted at, and reminded of how much money I'd lost the company.
(20) Mascherano doesn’t laugh, but he tuts instead, shaking his head in that way players do when the possibility of Brazil exiting a World Cup is mentioned.