• IPA: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/

hush (hushes, present participle hushing; past and past participle hushed)

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.

   • Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?

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     And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

4. (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.

• German: verstummen, still werden
• Russian: замолка́ть
• Spanish: callar, callarse

• German: zum Schweigen bringen
• Russian: утихоми́ривать
• Spanish: callar

• Spanish: calmar

hush (uncountable)

1. A silence, especially after some noise

   • It is the hush of night.

2. A mining method using water

• French: silence
• German: Stille, Ruhe
• Russian: тишина́
• Spanish: silencio