1Make (someone) be quiet or stop talking.

他把食指放在噘起的嘴唇上让她安静。

1. 1.1no object, often in imperative Be quiet.
   嘘，别作声
   Hush! Someone will hear you

   嘘！别人会听见你。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The whole courtroom hushed, obviously, when she read her statement.
   • The class hushed, keeping quiet, except for a few whispers here and there.
   • The crowd hushed as it feared the opportunity had been lost; when the kick landed unerringly in the outstretched arms of the oncoming wing, joy was unrestrained.
   • Yea yea… now hush up, I get to blow up a few things and we're still alive, this must be my day.
   • Hugo scurries to take his seat (marked with a large cardboard notice reading ‘Reserved - Director’) and the audience hushes.
   • The teacher looked at what they were looking and laughing at and told them to hush up so he could start class.
   • ‘Oh hush up,’ she said and rolled the sleeves back down, put the jacket back on and zipped it up.
   • He started rocking back and forth slightly, trying to get me to hush and calm down.
   • The lights go down, the audience hushes, and very quickly the few details that I had previously known of the film were all affirmed; it was about a bunch of queer volleyball players from Thailand.
   • But while leading figures in other sports often speak out on matters that affect their livelihoods, footballers hush up or are airbrushed into meaningless platitudes.
   • She kept asking what was wrong, but her mother merely told her to hush up, and run faster.
   • He looked to me and placed a finger over his lips, telling me to hush up and act like he wasn't there.
   • He's been owed a trophy for years, and if he gets one, maybe he can finally hush up about how comic actors are perennially overlooked.
   • It was a silence so perfect and expectant that it made me think of the moment an audience hushes at the start of a concert, a moment in this case that stretched from dusk to dawn.
   • The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you.
   • She's probably trying to get her dear dad to hush up.

   Synonyms

   fall silent, become silent, stop talking, quieten, quieten down

   informal pipe down, shut up
2. 1.2hush something up Suppress public mention of something.
   隐瞒，遮掩
   management took steps to hush up the dangers

   管理层采取措施隐瞒危险。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If they'd spent the money, instead of hushing it up and keeping people in the dark, they'd still be around today.
   • No doubt the whole scandal would be hushed up and put out of our minds within the week.
   • No names were released and the issue was hushed up.
   • These are painful realities and they do not become any less real or any less painful by hushing them up.
   • My thought now is that it was all a very long time ago, in a much more rigid social climate than today, and there is not much sense in trying to hush it up any more.
   • Tony asks me to hush it up, so I only call seven papers.
   • It was political in nature and yet it was hushed up.
   • He was killed by terrorists and the case was hushed up.
   • I knew they were introducing new charging structures, but they should be promoting these discounted schemes to the people they were designed for, not hushing them up on the bosses' orders.
   • Following an internal investigation, several soldiers received what amounted to a reprimand and the matter was hushed up.

   Synonyms

   keep secret, conceal, hide, suppress, cover up, keep dark, keep quiet about, not divulge, stifle, squash, whitewash, smother, obscure, veil, sweep under the carpet

   informal sit on, keep under one's hat

A silence.

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