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hush

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"Silence request"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hʌʃ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hhsuStarts with HEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals

Word origin

From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.

Used in a sentence

  • VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
  • And hush’d my deepest grief of all.
  • It is the hush of night.

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