hushed

hush (h

sh)

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.

A silence or stillness, especially after noise.

adj. Archaic

Silent; quiet.

[Probably back-formation from Middle English husht, silent, of imitative origin.]

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Adj.

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"

hushed

adjective quiet, low, soft, subdued, low-pitched At first we spoke in hushed voices.
loud, noisy

Translations

hushed [hʌʃt] ADJ [silence] → profundo; [tone] → callado, muy bajo
the room was hushed → la sala estaba en silencio
the atmosphere was hushed → el ambiente era silencioso

hushed [ˈhʌʃt] adj

(= not noisy) [place] → silencieux/euse

[tone, voice, conversation] → étouffé(e)
hush-hush [ˌhʌʃˈhʌʃ] adj → ultra-secret/ète
hush money n → prix m du silence de qn
to pay sb hush money → acheter le silence de qn

hushed

adj voices → gedämpft; words → leise; crowd → schweigend; courtroom → still; in hushed tones → mit gedämpfter Stimme, in gedämpftem Ton; in hushed whispers → im gedämpften Flüsterton

hushed [hʌʃt] adj (tone, voice) → sommesso/a; (silence) → profondo/a

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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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