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hush up
(encz) | hush up,tutlat v: Zdeněk Brož |
hush up
(encz) | hush up,ututlat v: Zdeněk Brož |
hush up
(encz) | hush up,zamlčet v: Zdeněk Brož |
hush up
(encz) | hush up,zmlknout v: Zdeněk Brož |
hush up
(encz) | hush up,ztichnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
hush up
(wn) | hush up
v 1: cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not
whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over
her mistakes" [syn: whitewash, gloss over, {sleek
over}, hush up]
2: cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children
in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still,
shut up, hush up] [ant: louden] |
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To hush up
(gcide) | Hush \Hush\ (h[u^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed (h[u^]sht);
p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.] [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.
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My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
--Shak.
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2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
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With thou, then,
Hush my cares? --Otway.
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And hush'd my deepest grief of all. --Tennyson.
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To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to
keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." --Pope.
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