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

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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. 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.

3. Sophocles:

   Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

4. David Cay Johnston:

   For 10 years, this was the guy who handled the most sensitive things Donald McGahn had to hide. That's why he is the lawyer on the( Karen) McDougal and the Stormy Daniels hush money payments, donald McGahn knew Donald McGahn could trust Donald McGahn to do Donald McGahn dirty work and to conceal what Donald McGahn really is like from the public.

5. John Block:

   Whether it be paying $62,500 in hush money to sexual accusers for crotch-grabbing incidents or delving out over $6,000 to her daughter for hair and makeup, institutions New Mexicans are supposed to rely on refuse to hold the governor accountable.