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hush up

(tr, adverb) to suppress information or rumours about

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Verb	1.	hush up - cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes" sleek over, whitewash, gloss over cover up, cover - hide from view or knowledge; "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House"
	2.	hush up - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" silence, still, hush, quieten, shut up shush - silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, subdue, curb - to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" lull, calm down - become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" shout down - silence or overwhelm by shouting pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hush - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" gag, muzzle - prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"

hush

verb

1. To cause to become silent:

quiet, quieten, shush, shut up, silence, still.

2. To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check.Also used with up:

burke, choke (back), gag, hold back, hold down, muffle, quench, repress, smother, squelch, stifle, strangle, suppress, throttle.

Informal: sit on (or upon).

3. To prevent (something) from being known.Also used with up:

cloak, conceal, cover (up), enshroud, hide, mask, shroud, veil.

Idioms: keep under cover, keep under wraps.

4. To keep from being published or transmitted.Also used with up:

ban, black out, censor, stifle, suppress.

Idiom: keep a lid on.

noun

1. The absence of sound or noise:

noiselessness, quiet, quietness, silence, soundlessness, still, stillness.

2. An absence of motion or disturbance:

calm, calmness, lull, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiet, quietness, serenity, stillness, tranquillity, untroubledness.

adjective

Archaic. Marked by, done with, or making no sound or noise:

hushed, noiseless, quiet, silent, soundless, still, stilly.

Translations

يَكْتُم فَضيحَة، يَطْمُس

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hush

(haʃ) interjection

be quiet; silence. Hush! Don't wake the baby.

noun

silence. A hush came over the room.

hushed adjective

silent, still. a hushed room/crowd.

hush up

to prevent from becoming known to the general public. The affair was hushed up.

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The court agreed with the contention of the Lt Col that the court of inquiry was not done deliberately to hush up the matter against the higher ups in the force.

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The opening scenes, set in 1953 when Churchill was 78 and in his second term as PM, see him confined to bed with a stroke while his aides try to hush up his failing health.