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hushes

hushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hush.

Meaning of hush

Verb (1)

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

  1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
  2. (transitive) To make quiet.
  3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
    • VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11

Verb (2)

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) 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
  2. (intransitive, transitive) 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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Phrases with hushes

Questions about hushes

What is hushes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hush.

Words near hushes in the dictionary

  1. hushens
  2. husher
  3. hushered
  4. hushering
  5. hushers
  6. hushes
  7. hushes down
  8. hushes one's mouth
  9. hushes up
  10. hushful
  11. hushfully

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