Word.ws English Dictionary

hushening

hushening is the present participle and gerund of hushen.

Meaning of hushen

Verb

hushen (third-person singular simple present hushens, present participle hushening, simple past and past participle hushened)

  1. (transitive) To make hushed or quiet; quieten
    • He went in the kitchen as I tried my best to hushen Lavine so I could ease drop a little harder.2017, Ashley, Never Judge a Book by Its Cover

Questions about hushening

What is hushening the present participle and gerund of?
Hushening is the present participle and gerund of hushen.

Words near hushening in the dictionary

  1. hushed up
  2. hushedly
  3. hushedness
  4. hushen
  5. hushened
  6. hushening
  7. hushens
  8. husher
  9. hushered
  10. hushering
  11. hushers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hushening (page history and authors); hushen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hushening.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hushening. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.