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hushed

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hush  (hsh)
v. hushed, hush·ing, hush·es
v.tr.
1. To make silent or quiet.
2. To calm; soothe.
3. To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up: tried to hush up the damaging details.
v.intr.
To be or become silent or still.
n.
A silence or stillness, especially after noise.
adj. Archaic
Silent; quiet.
[Probably back-formation from Middle English husht, silent, of imitative origin.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hushed - in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"
muted, subdued, quiet
soft - (of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"
Translations
Spanish hushed [hʌʃt] adj [voice] → bajo
German hushed [hʌʃt] hush adj → still;
(voice) → gedämpft
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All memory of the past, all thought of the future, all sense of the falseness and hopelessness of my own position, lay hushed within me into deceitful rest.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
-- Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas; thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
No sound Of bird now flutters from the hushed hillside; All, all is still, save for the wind that wails And whistles through the long night where the ghosts Hither and thither in the gloom go by, And spirits from the nether world arise Under the ominous clouds.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
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