Dictionary Definition
Verb
1 become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my
babay!"
2 cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence
the children in the church!" [syn: quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up] [ant:
louden]
3 become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell
silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, quiet, quiesce, quiet down,
pipe
down] [ant: louden]
4 wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"
5 run water over the ground to erode (soil),
revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
to become quiet
- 黙る (だまる, damaru)
to make quiet
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Hush may refer to:
In modern culture:
- "Hush" (Buffy episode), an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Hush (comics), a DC comic book supervillain
- Hush (film), a 1998 movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow
- "Batman: Hush", a Batman comic book story arc written by Jeph Loeb
In music:
- Hush (album), by Jane Siberry
- Hush (band), an Australian glam rock group
- "Hush" (LL Cool J song)
- Hush (rapper), a Lebanese/Italian rapper from Michigan
- "Hush" (song), by Joe South
- "Hush" (Tool song)
- Hush (Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin album)
- Hush Records, an American record label
- "Hush" (Kula Shaker single), recorded by Kula Shaker of the song by Joe South
People with the surname
- Ralph Hush (1783-1860), English convict sent to Australia
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
allay,
appease, assibilate, assibilation, awful
silence, black out, buzz,
calm, calm down, censor, choke, choke off, compose, conceal, cool, cover up, cradle, dead, dead of night, deathlike
silence, dulcify,
dumbfound, ease, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, even out,
fall silent, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional
rustling, gag, gentle, golden silence, hide, hiss, hissing, hugger-mugger,
hugger-muggery, hush of night, hush up, hush-hush, hushing, inaudibility, keep quiet,
kill, lisp, lucid stillness, lull, mollify, muffle, mum, mute, muzzle, noiseless, noiselessness, pacify, peace, pipe down, placate, pour balm into, put to
silence, quash, quell, quiesce, quiescence, quiet, quiet down, quieten, quietness, quietude, repress, rest, rhonchus, rock, rock to sleep, secretiveness, secretness, shush, shushing, shut down on, shut
up, sibilance,
sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, silence, silent, silentness, siss, sissing, sit on, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smooth, smooth down, smooth over,
smoothen, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, soft-pedal, soften, solemn silence, soothe, soundless, soundlessness, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, stabilize, steady, sternutation, stertor, stifle, still, stillness, stilly, strike dumb, subdue, suppress, swish, tacitness, taciturnity, throttle, tomblike silence,
tranquilize,
tranquillity,
wheeze, whish, whisht, whisper, whist, whistle, whistling, white noise,
whiz, whoosh, zip