hush up
English
Verb
hush up (third-person singular simple present hushes up, present participle hushing up, simple past and past participle hushed up)
- (intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
- Hush up now; you have talked too much.
- (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known.
- They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity.
Synonyms
- (become quiet): hush, hush down, quiet down, quieten down, shut up
Translations
to stop making sounds
to keep secret
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