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Definition of shush in English: shushexclamationʃʌʃʃʊʃ Be quiet. Shush! Do you want to wake everyone? Example sentencesExamples - Rolling her eyes impatiently, ‘Oh, shush, will you!;
- She glared at the well-built wrestler and decided against hurting him, ‘Oh shush!’
- At one point, Harry giggles behind the camera and Diana says, ‘Harry shush!’
noun ʃʌʃʃʊʃ 1An utterance of ‘shush’ the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts Example sentencesExamples - One of the students whispered to his friends, and a burst of laughter from them caused the teachers to glare at them, accompanied by a few shushes.
- A simple hushed apology of ‘excuse me’ or ‘sorry’ when someone needed to pass by an audience member was met by shushes and evil stares.
- Ryan yelled, there were various shushes from the others.
2A soft swishing or rustling sound. the ‘shush, shush, shush’ of a broom on the tent's groundsheet Example sentencesExamples - Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
- There were a few shushes from the people around us and quickly shushed up, diverting out attention back to the movie.
verb ʃʌʃʃʊʃ 1with object Tell or signal (someone) to be silent. she shushed him with a wave Example sentencesExamples - Allie shushed her aunt and blushed at the same time.
- Lily started to speak but Joe raised one finger to shush her.
- They started to shush me and told me to be quiet or I wouldn't hear her crying.
- A woman answered giggling and shushing someone to silence before speaking.
- My three year-old cousin on the other hand, does not appreciate the humour or my laughing, so she promptly shushes me and returns to her trace-like state of staring at the TV.
- I put a finger to my lips, shushing her immediately.
- Pixie shushes me and says ‘I'm worried about that noise.’
- As I chatted to Paul over a glass of bubbly, we were shushed by a grumpy old woman.
- She shushed him and signalled for him to move back to the other side of the battlements.
- All at once, Kathy became quiet and shushed him, too.
- The other two shushed him quickly, then they shut the door behind them.
- The woman who was my mother held me and tried to shush me.
- She stated, holding a finger up to her lips as if shushing him.
- Instead I lifted a single finger at him as if to shush him.
- I opened my mouth to berate him, but he shushed me.
- After The Beatles' first set he shushes the audience and says ‘Now be quiet.’
- One of the men stepped forward, holding up one hand, shushing his buddies.
- I scrambled to shush her, but this is my sister's regular speaking voice. She sat down and looked around.
- I'm quite bad at regulating my voice, as many people who've publicly shushed me can attest.
- Mika shushed him and did the quiet finger gesture.
Synonyms quieten, quiet, hush, still - 1.1no object Become or remain silent.
Example sentencesExamples - There is a drunk dyke heckler whom everyone shushes.
- I'm singing out loud and the kids are telling me to shush.
- Thelma Lou runs to him, holds him, shushes in his ear.
- ‘Oh shush,’ Ana said throwing her brush at her and attaching the other earring.
- The doormen actually intercept approaching revellers in the street outside the club, asking them to shush.
- My inner voice, still remained a loud, enthusiastic, untrained child, frequently shushed and disciplined to sit still.
- ‘Oh shush,’ his mother scolded him before pointing at his food.
- I have tried glaring and have even gone on to shush - but with barely increased effect.
- The women are whispering and the men shushing and telling everyone to sit down - they've never seen a drama like this before.
- Now shush and plug in the hair dryer - I've got some hair to toss!
- There were swarms of people there, too, all loud and obnoxious despite the librarian's furious shushing, but I'd learned long ago to ignore all of that.
- My generation didn't have to calm our babies after feeding; we nursed them to sleep, which takes less time than bouncing, wrapping, shushing, and pacifying.
- If word got out about what's to be found at Bay Area libraries, there'd be a whole lot more shushing going on.
- Riggs cut her off with a shushing, knowing very well that it was impossible to make his own voice louder than hers, considering the state of things.
- I was told to shush and I was being punched in the face.
- The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence.
- The maid smirked, ‘I know you don't care about what they think at all, so shush.’
Synonyms fall silent, stop talking, break off, become quiet, quieten down, grow silent, hold one's tongue
2no object, usually with adverbial of direction Move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound. I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past Example sentencesExamples - A few cars passed through the lonely yellow of the street lights, their tires making soft shushing sounds on the wet pavement.
- I heard footsteps downstairs on the first floor and it sounded like Gorey speaking in a shushed sort of voice.
- Dining on the beach, surf shushing over the nearby reef, my biggest dilemma is which of five lobster menu options to select.
- I grinned as I lay back while the sleigh shushed through the countryside: pity they weren't bigger.
- The wind in the trees, waves shushing on the shore, birdsong or the rustle of long grass.
- It annoyed Nyte, keeping him up with the shushing of the wind in the nearby aspens and the constant patter-patter of rain on the roof.
- The battle hits all of Hollywood's cues for what warfare is supposed to look and sound like, including tracers, shushing, exploding shells and gore.
- The only noise besides the birds or the ice crackling along the streambeds is the shushing sound of my feet across the snow.
- There's a field above my house where the only sounds are eagles above and wind shushing through grass and pine below.
- There were hardly any waves just a gentle shushing on the pebbles of the beach.
Rhymes ablush, blush, brush, crush, flush, gush, hush, hush-hush, lush, mush, plush, rush, slush, thrush, tush Definition of shush in US English: shushexclamation Be quiet. “Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?” Example sentencesExamples - At one point, Harry giggles behind the camera and Diana says, ‘Harry shush!’
- She glared at the well-built wrestler and decided against hurting him, ‘Oh shush!’
- Rolling her eyes impatiently, ‘Oh, shush, will you!;
noun 1An utterance of “shush” the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts Example sentencesExamples - One of the students whispered to his friends, and a burst of laughter from them caused the teachers to glare at them, accompanied by a few shushes.
- Ryan yelled, there were various shushes from the others.
- A simple hushed apology of ‘excuse me’ or ‘sorry’ when someone needed to pass by an audience member was met by shushes and evil stares.
2A soft swishing or rustling sound. Example sentencesExamples - There were a few shushes from the people around us and quickly shushed up, diverting out attention back to the movie.
- Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
verb 1with object Tell or signal (someone) to be silent. she shushed him with a wave Example sentencesExamples - After The Beatles' first set he shushes the audience and says ‘Now be quiet.’
- One of the men stepped forward, holding up one hand, shushing his buddies.
- Pixie shushes me and says ‘I'm worried about that noise.’
- Allie shushed her aunt and blushed at the same time.
- She stated, holding a finger up to her lips as if shushing him.
- I opened my mouth to berate him, but he shushed me.
- The woman who was my mother held me and tried to shush me.
- All at once, Kathy became quiet and shushed him, too.
- The other two shushed him quickly, then they shut the door behind them.
- I'm quite bad at regulating my voice, as many people who've publicly shushed me can attest.
- Lily started to speak but Joe raised one finger to shush her.
- She shushed him and signalled for him to move back to the other side of the battlements.
- I scrambled to shush her, but this is my sister's regular speaking voice. She sat down and looked around.
- My three year-old cousin on the other hand, does not appreciate the humour or my laughing, so she promptly shushes me and returns to her trace-like state of staring at the TV.
- Instead I lifted a single finger at him as if to shush him.
- I put a finger to my lips, shushing her immediately.
- As I chatted to Paul over a glass of bubbly, we were shushed by a grumpy old woman.
- Mika shushed him and did the quiet finger gesture.
- A woman answered giggling and shushing someone to silence before speaking.
- They started to shush me and told me to be quiet or I wouldn't hear her crying.
Synonyms quieten, quiet, hush, still - 1.1no object Become or remain silent.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘Oh shush,’ his mother scolded him before pointing at his food.
- I'm singing out loud and the kids are telling me to shush.
- There is a drunk dyke heckler whom everyone shushes.
- The doormen actually intercept approaching revellers in the street outside the club, asking them to shush.
- I was told to shush and I was being punched in the face.
- The maid smirked, ‘I know you don't care about what they think at all, so shush.’
- My inner voice, still remained a loud, enthusiastic, untrained child, frequently shushed and disciplined to sit still.
- The women are whispering and the men shushing and telling everyone to sit down - they've never seen a drama like this before.
- The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence.
- I have tried glaring and have even gone on to shush - but with barely increased effect.
- Thelma Lou runs to him, holds him, shushes in his ear.
- Riggs cut her off with a shushing, knowing very well that it was impossible to make his own voice louder than hers, considering the state of things.
- If word got out about what's to be found at Bay Area libraries, there'd be a whole lot more shushing going on.
- My generation didn't have to calm our babies after feeding; we nursed them to sleep, which takes less time than bouncing, wrapping, shushing, and pacifying.
- ‘Oh shush,’ Ana said throwing her brush at her and attaching the other earring.
- Now shush and plug in the hair dryer - I've got some hair to toss!
- There were swarms of people there, too, all loud and obnoxious despite the librarian's furious shushing, but I'd learned long ago to ignore all of that.
Synonyms fall silent, stop talking, break off, become quiet, quieten down, grow silent, hold one's tongue
2no object, usually with adverbial of direction Move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound. I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past Example sentencesExamples - A few cars passed through the lonely yellow of the street lights, their tires making soft shushing sounds on the wet pavement.
- There's a field above my house where the only sounds are eagles above and wind shushing through grass and pine below.
- Dining on the beach, surf shushing over the nearby reef, my biggest dilemma is which of five lobster menu options to select.
- The battle hits all of Hollywood's cues for what warfare is supposed to look and sound like, including tracers, shushing, exploding shells and gore.
- There were hardly any waves just a gentle shushing on the pebbles of the beach.
- I grinned as I lay back while the sleigh shushed through the countryside: pity they weren't bigger.
- I heard footsteps downstairs on the first floor and it sounded like Gorey speaking in a shushed sort of voice.
- The only noise besides the birds or the ice crackling along the streambeds is the shushing sound of my feet across the snow.
- It annoyed Nyte, keeping him up with the shushing of the wind in the nearby aspens and the constant patter-patter of rain on the roof.
- The wind in the trees, waves shushing on the shore, birdsong or the rustle of long grass.
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