Hush (Verb)
Meaning 1
Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The teacher raised her hand and said "hush" to quiet the chattering students.
- As the lights dimmed, the whispers and murmurs began to hush and the movie started.
- The mother gently rocked the crying baby to hush its cries and lull it to sleep.
- The crowd fell silent as the national anthem started to hush the murmurs of the audience.
- The librarian placed a finger to her lips and whispered "hush" as the rowdy group walked into the library.
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Meaning 2
Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The librarian had to hush the rowdy group of teenagers studying for their exam.
- Please hush up, you're being too loud in the library.
- The teacher tried to hush the class as the principal walked in.
- Her voice was soothing and helped to hush the crying baby.
- The audience was asked to hush during the live recording of the TV show.
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Meaning 3
Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The sound of the rushing water hushed as it seeped into the excavated pit, slowly revealing the geological layers beneath.
- Geologists carefully used water pressure to erode the soil and hush the sediment, exposing colorful mineral deposits.
- As the water sprayed over the land, it hushed the surface soil, gradually disclosing the underlying geologic formations.
- To hush the centuries-old sediment and bring it to the surface for excavation, miners employed large jets of water to run over the ground.
- Mining engineers gently hushed the dirt with controlled water pressure to expose valuable mineral deposits hidden deep within the bedrock.
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Meaning 4
Become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- Hush little one, it's time for bed, don't cry.
- The teacher told the rowdy students to hush and pay attention.
- Just hush and listen carefully for a moment, I think I hear something.
- She tried to hush her crying baby by singing a lullaby.
- The librarian glared over her glasses, signaling everyone to hush in the reading room.
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Meaning 5
Wash by removing particles; "Wash ores".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The rushing water hushes away impurities as the miners wash the ore to reveal its valuable minerals.
- To extract the precious gem, they had to hush the mixture of crushed rocks in a flowing stream and wait for it to settle.
- Hush the powdered ore in a stream and collect the heavier metal fragments that get left behind.
- They use a device to hush the granular sediment and find rich deposits of precious metals hidden within.
- The miners applied this wet separation method, gently hushing away the lighter soil in a stream.