Verb: hush up
- Cover up a misdemeanour, fault, or error
"Let's not hush up the crimes of Stalin";
- whitewash, gloss over
- Cause to be quiet or not talk
"Please hush up the children in the church!";
- hush, quieten [Brit], silence, still, shut up
Derived forms: hushes up, hushed up, hushing up
Type of: conquer, cover, cover up, stamp down, subdue, suppress
Encyclopedia: Hush up