hush up
verb
Forms hushes up hushing up hushed up
- verb (intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds. “Hush up now; you have talked too much.”
- verb (transitive, informal) To silence. “Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.”
- verb (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known. “They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity.”
Synonyms
hush hush down quiet down quieten down shut up whitewash gloss over sleek over quieten silence still
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