hush

hush is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
2. transitive verb. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
3. intransitive verb. 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.
4. noun. Stillness; silence; quiet.
5. adjective. Silent; quiet.
6. noun. (poetic) tranquil silence

   "the still of the night"

   Synonyms: still, stillness

7. verb. run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
8. verb. wash by removing particles

   "Wash ores"

9. verb. become quiet or still; fall silent

   "hush my baby!"

10. verb. cause to be quiet or not talk

    "Please silence the children in the church!"

    Synonyms: quieten, silence, still

11. verb. become quiet or quieter

    "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

    Synonyms: quiesce, quiet, quieten

Synonyms

still, stillness, quieten, silence, quiesce, quiet

Common word forms

hushed, husher, hushes, hushful, hushing, hushable

Words from these letters

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