Hush Up

Definition: Hush Up

Hush Up

Verb

1. Cover up a misdemeanor; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin".

2. Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hush Up

Concealment

Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore.

Pacification

Settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences.

Taciturnity

Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute.

Crosswords: Hush Up

Hush up! (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "hush up": To hush up. Additional references.

Albanian

mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), kaloj në heshtje, ia qep gojën. (various references)

Bulgarian 

потулвам (blanket, clamp, conceal, hugger mugger, smother up, stifle, suppress, sweep under the carpet). (various references)

Czech

ututlat, utajit (keep). (various references)

Finnish

vaientaa (silence), painaa villaisella (gloss over). (various references)

French

cacher, étouffer. (various references)

German

vertuschen (gloss over, hush, to hush (up), to hush up), totschweigen. (various references)

Greek 

αποσιωπώ. (various references)

Hungarian

elhallgat (dry up, fall silent, pretermit, to choke up, to dry up, to shut up, to shut up shop, to stint, to suppress). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

揉み消す (to crush, to hush up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もみけす (to crush, to hush up). (various references)

Manx

mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushhay upay

Portuguese

manter secreto, evitar que se fale em, abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

tãcea (be mum, cease, pause), muşamaliza (hugger mugger, paper over), cocoloşi (ball, crumple, cuddle, shrink, shrivel). (various references)

Russian 

замять (burke, smother). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zataškavati (keep secret), zataškati (suppress, whitewash), zabašuriti (cover up), prikriti (conceal, cover up, dissimulate). (various references)

Spanish

tapar la boca a, encubrir (abet, be an accomplice in, cloak, conceal, cover, dissemble, gloss over, Harbor, harbour, hide, hush, mask, receive, secrete, shelter, varnish, veil), echar tierra a. (various references)

Swedish

hemlighålla (hide), tysta (muzzle, silence, suppress). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เงียบ (hush, sedate, silence), ปกปิ�" (conceal, hush). (various references)

Turkish

gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash). (various references)

Ukrainian

замовчувати (conceal, elide, slur, suppress, withhold). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hush, push.

-3 letters: huh, hup, pus, shh, sup, ups.

-4 letters: sh, uh, up, us.

+5 letters: superchurch, throughputs.