hush'd
hush'd is the simple past and past participle of hush.
Meaning of hush
Verb (1)
hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)
Verb (2)
hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)
- To rush, to gush.
- On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]1840, Anderson, Ballads, page 96, quoted in the EDD
- To send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore.
- […] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […]1750, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (XLVI), page 364
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- What is hush'd the simple past and past participle of?
- Hush'd is the simple past and past participle of hush.
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