Definition of Hush

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Definition of Hush

Hush

To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

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.

Stillness; silence; quiet.

Silent; quiet.

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Hush Quotations

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
David Foster Wallace

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?
Charles Edwards

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Alan Patrick Herbert

Hush Translations

hush in French is taire, taisons, taisez, tais, taisent
hush in German is vertuschen, still
hush in Swedish is tystnad, tystna, tysta ned

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