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Hush   /həʃ/   Listen
Hush

noun
1.
(poetic) tranquil silence.  Synonyms: still, stillness.
verb
(past & past part. hushed; pres. part. hushing)
1.
Become quiet or still; fall silent.
2.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still.  Antonym: louden.
3.
Become quiet or quieter.  Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten.  Antonym: louden.
4.
Wash by removing particles.
5.
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals.



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"Hush" Quotes from Famous Books



... steadfast bound; And I have seen the storms arise And darkness veil from mortal eyes The Heavens that shine so fair and bright, And all was solemn, silent night. Then I have seen the storm disperse, And Mercy hush the whirlwind fierce, And all my soul in transport owned There is a God, in ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... "Hush, Walter!" commanded Miss Hagford. "We must have no more of this here. It is disgraceful. We will go directly home and your mother must know all the particulars. I don't know what she will say—I really do not," the ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... the door and the ebony chair, arms extended and eyes staring upward at the ceiling, lay Sir Lucien Pyne, his white shirt front redly dyed. In the hush which had fallen, the footsteps of Inspector Whiteleaf sounded loudly as he opened the final door, and swept the interior of an inner room with the ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... insects are a deafening crash, like the rattling of machinery in a cotton-mill. Except in the hush of noonday, the notes of singing-birds are drowned amidst the howling of monkeys, the whining of sapajous, the roar of the jaguar, and the dismal hooting of thousands of wild animals that riot in these awful solitudes. The sight of the fairest flowers ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various
... calm my bosom fills, And silence like the hush of morn; Such joy through all my being thrills As swept men's hearts when Christ ...
— Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians • Charles Ebert Orr


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