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Hushed   /həʃt/   Listen
verb
Hush  v. t.  (past & past part. hushed; pres. part. hushing)  
1.
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. "My tongue shall hush again this storm of war."
2.
To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. "With thou, then, Hush my cares?" "And hush'd my deepest grief of all."
To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up."



Hush  v. i.  To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise. "Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill." "But all these strangers' presence every one did hush."



adjective
hushed  adj.  
1.
Having the sound level reduced; especially used of the noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones.
Synonyms: muted.
2.
Having relatively little noise; as, a hushed church.
Synonyms: quiet.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hushed" Quotes from Famous Books



... the thought of the children, for the childish prattle had so soon been hushed, the eager little feet had been so quickly stilled. Alden was the first-born son, with an older daughter, who had been named Virginia, for her mother. Virginia would have been thirty-two now, and probably married, ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

... remain unanswered. Whatever Ducat had said, it was something that hushed McHenry forever. He never mentioned the subject again, nor did any of us. But McHenry's attitude had subtly changed. Ducat's words had destroyed that last secret refuge of the soul in which every man keeps the vestiges ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... forgotten Gerard in The Cloister and the Hearth, and wonder if it was some monastery-trained youth like him who rested from the creation of saints and angels upon vellum, to draw fighting knights upon linen, and whether, perchance, his hushed heart burned within him at the stir and valor of the deeds he portrayed. And then some one, better informed than we, points out the figure of a dwarf, nicely labeled as Turold—for many of the actors in this embroidered story are labeled ...
— The Development of Embroidery in America • Candace Wheeler

... long in getting her brother out of the way, and releasing them from their painful imprisonment. The streets of Upton were hushed in utter solitude and silence as they walked through them, speechless and heavy-hearted; those streets which, on the morrow, were to have been crowded with groups of his people, eager to welcome him home. They passed the church, ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton

... of the Lord was heard above the rage of wind and water, and their cry of terror, as He rose and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, "Peace, be still." The proud waves obeyed that voice of power, the wind was hushed, "and ...
— Twilight And Dawn • Caroline Pridham


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