hush
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- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
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- 4
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Definition of hush
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To become quiet.
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verb
- (intransitive)To become quiet.
- (transitive)To make quiet.
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(transitive)To appease; to allay; to soothe.
“VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?”
“And hush’d my deepest grief of all.”
- (transitive)To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A silence, especially after some noise
“It is the hush of night.”
“And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.”
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Etymology
From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.
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