hush

verb

/hʌʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.

inherited from huschen

Definitions

To become quiet.
To make quiet.
3
To appease
To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
- And hush’d my deepest grief of all.
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1. To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
2. 5
  A silence, especially after some noise
  - It is the hush of night.
  - And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.

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Derived

hushable, hush down, hushen, hushling, hush one's mouth, hush-up, hushy

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA