hushing up

Verb

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

1. (informal, intransitive) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
   • Hush up now; you have talked too much.

   Synonyms:

   hush, hush down, quiet down, quieten down, shut up

2. (informal, transitive) To silence.
   • Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.
3. (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known.
   • They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity.