Dictionary

hush up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (informal, intransitive) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
   • Hush up now; you have talked too much.
2. (informal, transitive) To silence.
   • Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.
3. (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known.
   • They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity.
   • As he took John Willet's view of the matter in regard to the propriety of not bruiting the tale abroad, unless the spirit should appear to him again, in which case it would be necessary to take immediate counsel with the clergyman, it was solemnly resolved that it should be hushed up and kept quiet. 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 33.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 128:

Forms

Relateds

wall of silence · conspiracy of silence

Synonyms

shut up · hush · quieten down · hush down · quiet down

Translations (24)

hu agyonhallgat (to keep secret) · ro mușamaliza (to keep secret) · de ruhig sein (to stop making sounds) · it mettere a tacere (to keep secret) · sk zamĺknuť (to stop making sounds) · sk umlčať (to keep secret) · pl zamilknąć (to stop making sounds) · hu elhallgat (to stop making sounds) · de still sein (to stop making sounds) · hu elhallgat (to keep secret) · de vertuschen (to keep secret) · de totschweigen (to keep secret) · sk zamlčať (to keep secret) · hu eltussol (to keep secret) · de verschweigen (to keep secret) · ru замалчивать (to keep secret) · fi salata (to keep secret) · sk ututlať (to keep secret) · ru замолкать (to stop making sounds) · nl verzwijgen (to keep secret) · vi ỉm (to keep secret) · ro ține secret (to keep secret) · hu befogja a száját (to stop making sounds) · sk zmĺknuť (to stop making sounds)