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hush up

/hʌʃ ʌp/

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verb

/hʌʃ ʌp/B2formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения действия по заставлению кого-либо замолчать или сокрытию информации с целью сохранения её в тайне.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of making someone quiet or suppressing information to keep it secret.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Suppress informationinformal

    To prevent something from becoming known to the public, often by using secrecy or influence.

    ruЗамять

    • The company tried to hush up the scandal.
    • They hushed up the details of the accident.
    • The government was accused of hushing up the report.

    Synonymscensorconcealcover upkeep quietmuzzlestonewallsuppresssweep under the rug

    Antonymsdiscloseexposereveal

  2. Make quietinformal

    To cause someone or something to become quiet, especially by telling them to stop talking.

    ruУспокоить

    • The teacher hushed up the noisy students.
    • She hushed up the children so the baby could sleep.
    • He tried to hush up the crowd before the announcement.

    Synonymsgaghushmuzzlequietquietenshushsilencestill

Forms
  • hushed up past participle
  • hushed up past simple
  • hushing up present participle
  • hushes up third person singular

Base verbhush

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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