1
as in cooling
to become still and orderly
the whole room hushed when the queen made her entrance
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2
as in quieting (down)
to stop talking
the principal asked the children to hush and pay attention during the ceremony
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3
as in shushing
to stop the noise or speech of
he tried to hush the baby by making a lot of silly faces
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Recent Examples of hushing
There are a lot of ways to declutter out there—the pile method and the discernment method are two of them, and now, everyone’s hushing their house.
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Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Unfortunately, the austerity and elegance of the downstairs dining room acts as a dampener, hushing the salad’s brashness and sapping much of the fun.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
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After 10 more minutes of cooling down, shift the brownies to a cutting board.—
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For a bird’s-eye view of the jungle and villages, climb the towering Nohoch Mul Pyramid to emerge around 138 feet above the canopy before cooling off in your choice of pristine cenotes.—
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After once rising from her seat to scold a man recording the broadcast on his phone to shushing in-studio viewers during an interview with Zohran Mamdani, Whoopi Goldberg just wrote another chapter in her comical relationship with The View's studio audience.—
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The snow was shushing off the roof of the garage and down on the driveway.—
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The health of the debt market is in sharp contrast to that of regional stock exchanges, where indices are lagging the US and emerging markets and the flow of IPOs is drying up.—
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On Saturday, funding for SNAP federal food assistance drying up.—
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Trump’s immigration policies don’t make sense as a pro-worker agenda, but do make sense as a way of silencing dissent and keeping out nonwhite immigrants.—
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Students have been instructed to continue sheltering in place until further notice, locking doors and silencing phones.—
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Dave Chappelle – Live July 14, 2023 Comedy at this scale functions strangely — a stadium quieting itself to hear one person think out loud.—
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Gilma Pereda was having trouble quieting her brain.—
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For much of the past year, neither side was willing to budge much from their respective stance, effectively muting any chance of a settlement.—
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The shell has enough shape to ease pressure on bony spots of the foot, and the liner offers just enough cushion to keep toes warm and circulation flowing, without muting feedback.—
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“Hushing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hushing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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