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hushing

hushing is the present participle and gerund of hush.

Noun

hushing (countable and uncountable, plural hushings)

  1. The act of one who hushes, or calls for silence.
  2. (uncountable) The use of a heavy discharge of water to uncover a mineral vein or wash ore.

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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Forms of hushing

pluralhushings

Words formed from hushing

Phrases with hushing

Questions about hushing

What does hushing mean?
Hushing means the act of one who hushes, or calls for silence.
What is hushing the present participle and gerund of?
Hushing is the present participle and gerund of hush.
What part of speech is hushing?
Hushing is a noun.
What is the plural of hushing?
The plural of hushing is hushings.

Words near hushing in the dictionary

  1. hushes down
  2. hushes one's mouth
  3. hushes up
  4. hushful
  5. hushfully
  6. hushing
  7. hushing down
  8. hushing one's mouth
  9. hushing up
  10. hushingly
  11. hushings

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