亚洲网紅露点

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

hush up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to suppress information or rumours about
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

Keep from public knowledge, suppress mention of. For example, They tried to hush up the damaging details . [First half of 1600s]
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

He added: "Unless the process is absolutely right, then there'll still be a lingering doubt that things have been hushed up or swept under a carpet."

From

In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.

From

Additionally, he suggested that the Vatican is involved in the cover-up and that, oh, by the way, people have been murdered to keep all this hushed up.

From

Addiction and overdose fatalities are often still hushed up in Hattiesburg, Mr. Moore said.

From

One note suggests the first lady sought to reclaim diamond earrings given by the Czech Republic, but tried to keep it all hushed up.

From

Advertisement

Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


hush puppyhusk