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Verb: hush  húsh
  1. Become quiet or still; fall silent
    "hush my baby!"
     
  2. Cause to be quiet or not talk
    "Please hush the children in the church!";
    - quieten [Brit], silence, still, shut up, hush up
     
  3. Become quiet or quieter
    "The crowd hushed as the speaker approached the podium";
    - quieten [Brit], quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down [informal]
     
  4. (mining) wash by removing particles
    "They hushed the ore to remove impurities";
    - wash
     
  5. (mining) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
    "The miners hushed the hillside to expose gold deposits"
Noun: hush  húsh
  1. (poetic) tranquil silence
    "the hush of the night";
    - stillness, still
Interjection: hush  húsh
  1. Be silent
    - silence, sh, shh, shush [informal], be quiet, whisht [UK, Ireland, dialect]

Derived forms: hushed, hushes, hushing

See also: gloss over

Type of: change, change intensity, conquer, irrigate, lave, quiet, silence, stamp down, subdue, suppress, wash, water

Encyclopedia: Hush, Little Baby