Word Study
shush
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb shush has 1 sense
- shush(v = verb.change) Array - silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'; Array is one way to hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shush, int. & v.
--int. = HUSH int.
--v.
1 intr. a call for silence by saying shush. b be silent (they shushed at once).
2 tr. make or attempt to make silent.
--int. = HUSH int.
--v.
1 intr. a call for silence by saying shush. b be silent (they shushed at once).
2 tr. make or attempt to make silent.
Etymology
imit.
THESAURUS
shush
assibilate, assibilation, black out, buzz, censor, choke, choke off, dumbfound, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gag, hiss, hissing, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, hushing, kill, lisp, muffle, muzzle, put to silence, quash, quiet, quieten, repress, rhonchus, shushing, shut down on, shut up, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, silence, siss, sissing, sit on, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, soft-pedal, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, stifle, still, strangle, strike dumb, suppress, swish, throttle, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip
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