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hush

/huhsh/US // hʌʃ //UK // (hʌʃ) //

嘘嘘,嘘寒问暖,嘘嘘声,嘘

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Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    v.无主动词 verb
    1. 1
      • : to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
    v.有主动词 verb
    1. 1
      • : to make silent; silence.
      • : to suppress mention of; keep concealed: They hushed up the scandal.
      • : to calm, quiet, or allay: to hush someone's fears.
    n.名词 noun
    1. 1
      • : silence or quiet, especially after noise.
      • : Phonetics. either of the sibilant sounds and.
    adj.形容词 adjective
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      • : Archaic. silent; quiet.

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    Examples

    • Keeping everything “hush-hush” for years was exhausting, and it was demoralizing to never open up about her personal life — particularly as an “open book” singer-songwriter who poured her real experiences into lyrics.

    • Switch to “Whisper” mode, and the Mach-E hushes its Hollywood effects.

    • Hawke is a genius at conjuring the hush of the auditorium, the thrill of live actors, the magical sense of a performance moving through time.

    • The hush-money-is-no-crime defenseTrump insisted it wasn’t a crime when his fixer arranged hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.

    • Illegitimate concerns would include a company wanting to preempt negative PR or silence victims of discrimination and harassment with hush money.

    • The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”

    • And they must just accept that after 20 years of trying to hush us and badmouth us.

    • Escorting is big business on the straight side too, only more of a hush-hush operation.

    • She hesitated to explain any further because, she said, “TLC has kind of told us to hush-hush.”

    • My mother took me to a live radio show in downtown Houston, and we had to be all hush as the skits were conducted.

    • Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

    • How still and calm the night was, the very stars were painted on the sky, the lights were low, there lay a hush upon the audience.

    • He caught his breath, he paused, then stepped within on tiptoe, and the hush of four thousand years closed after him.

    • He was taken up for dead; and Richelieu and the Cardinal conjured me to hush the affair.

    • Amid the hush that followed, the stranger picked himself slowly up, and sought to wipe the filth from his face and garments.

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