"hush up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: hushes up [present, singular, third-person], hushing up [participle, present], hushed up [participle, past], hushed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} hush up (third-person singular simple present hushes up, present participle hushing up, simple past and past participle hushed up)
  1. (intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds. Tags: informal, intransitive Synonyms: hush, hush down, quiet down, quieten down, shut up Translations (to stop making sounds): still sein (German), ruhig sein (German), elhallgat (Hungarian), befogja a száját (Hungarian), zamilknąć [perfective] (Polish), замолкать (zamolkatʹ) (Russian), zamĺknuť (Slovak), zmĺknuť (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-hush_up-en-verb-Ty6MRbJr Disambiguation of 'to stop making sounds': 81 15 5
  2. (transitive, informal) To silence. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-hush_up-en-verb-UNBF0StI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 47 17 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 24 59 16
  3. (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known. Tags: transitive Translations (to keep secret): verzwijgen (Dutch), salata (Finnish), totschweigen (German), vertuschen (German), verschweigen (German), agyonhallgat (Hungarian), eltussol (Hungarian), elhallgat (Hungarian), mettere a tacere (Italian), mușamaliza (Romanian), ține secret (Romanian), замалчивать (zamalčivatʹ) (Russian), zamlčať (Slovak), umlčať (Slovak), ututlať (Slovak), ỉm (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-hush_up-en-verb-pHEefgNZ Disambiguation of 'to keep secret': 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: conspiracy of silence, wall of silence

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "to stop making sounds",
      "word": "замолкать"
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      "sense": "to keep secret",
      "word": "salata"
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      "sense": "to keep secret",
      "word": "totschweigen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep secret",
      "word": "vertuschen"
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      "sense": "to keep secret",
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      "sense": "to keep secret",
      "word": "elhallgat"
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      "sense": "to keep secret",
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