Synonyms for hush
hʌʃhush

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hush

   Synonyms:
   bury, conceal, cover (up), hide, keep back, keep secret, secrete, suppress, withhold

   Antonyms:
   advertise, announce, circulate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give notice (of), give out, herald, make known, notify, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publish, report, reveal, say, spread abroad, state, tell

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hush, stillness, stillverb

   (poetic) tranquil silence

   "the still of the night"

   Synonyms:
   stillness, motionlessness, windlessness, lifelessness, distillery, still

2. hushverb

   become quiet or still; fall silent

   "hush my baby!"

   Synonyms:
   quiesce, hush up, quieten, still, pipe down, shut up, quiet down, quiet, silence

3. hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush upverb

   cause to be quiet or not talk

   "Please silence the children in the church!"

   Synonyms:
   button up, calm, lock away, put away, ease, sleek over, calm down, quiet down, whitewash, lock, hush up, close up, quieten, quiet, lock up, quiesce, still, tranquillise, shut up, pipe down, allay, clam up, keep mum, lull, shut away, relieve, gloss over, be quiet, dummy up, silence, lock in, tranquilize, belt up, tranquillize

4. quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe downverb

   become quiet or quieter

   "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

   Synonyms:
   quiesce, hush up, tranquillise, calm down, shut up, calm, quieten, still, tranquillize, silence, quiet down, pipe down, tranquilize, quiet, lull

5. hushverb

   wash by removing particles

   "Wash ores"

   Synonyms:
   quiesce, hush up, quieten, still, pipe down, shut up, quiet down, quiet, silence

6. hushverb

   run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals

   Synonyms:
   quiesce, hush up, quieten, still, pipe down, shut up, quiet down, quiet, silence

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Mining
   • Wash
   • Water

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1. hushverb

   Synonyms:
   still, silence, calm, quiet

2. hushinterj.

   Synonyms:
   silence, whist, be still, keep quiet, make no noise

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1. hushverb

   Synonyms:
   silence, still, repress, suppress, appease, allay

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "hush":

   shh, shhh, shush, chut, quiet, whisht, slient, silence, shht, ssh, -quiet

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1. List of known nicknames for "Hush":

   Shades of Blue, Edward Barton, Barton, Edward

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How to use hush in a sentence?

1. The Wall:

   When the NPR article was published Thursday, a hush fell over the The Times newsroom, with exclamations of ‘ oh my God ’ or ‘ wow ’ occasionally puncturing the silence as workers read the story.

2. Shin So-young:

   There is a tendency to be hush hush too much, which is creating fear and making people nervous about going to a hospital where there was a case.

3. Rob Whipkey:

   It’s been pretty hush-hush among the board members.

4. Sean Newman:

   The dealers on it are keeping it hush-hush until they are ready to come to market.

5. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3:

   It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.