hush, stillness, still
(noun) (poetic) tranquil silence; “the still of the night”
hush
(verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
hush
(verb) wash by removing particles; “Wash ores”
hush
(verb) become quiet or still; fall silent; “hush my baby!”
hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up
(verb) cause to be quiet or not talk; “Please silence the children in the church!”
quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down
(verb) become quiet or quieter; “The audience fell silent when the speaker entered”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)
(intransitive) To become quiet.
(transitive) To make quiet.
(transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
(transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
hush (uncountable)
A silence, especially after some noise
A mining method using water
• Huhs
Source: Wiktionary
Hush, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.] Etym: [OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.]
1. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shak.
2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.
Hush, v. i.
Definition: 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. Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. Keble. But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. Spenser.
Hush, n.
Definition: Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night." Byron. Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.
Hush, a.
Definition: Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
