Definitions for hushes

hushes hush

Spelling: [huhsh]
IPA: /hʌʃ/

Hushes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in hushes (ehhssu).

Definitions for hushes

noun

  1. silence or quiet, especially after noise.
  2. Phonetics. either of the sibilant sounds (sh) and (zh).

adjective

  1. Archaic. silent; quiet.

interjection

  1. (used as a command to be silent or quiet.)

verb (used with object)

  1. to make silent; silence.
  2. to suppress mention of; keep concealed (often followed by up):
  3. to calm, quiet, or allay:

verb (used without object)

  1. to become or be silent or quiet:

Origin of hushes

1350-1400; apparently back formation from husht whist2 (Middle English huissht), the -t being taken for past participle suffix

Examples for hushes

And it made us hush down, too, and talk low, like people at a funeral.

And they must just accept that after 20 years of trying to hush us and badmouth us.

Kitty dropped on the floor at Helen's feet; the hush in the room was breathless.

In what threatened to be a hush, one of the visitors offered some unbidden news.

For a while, she listened to the pleasant murmur of the sea, which was like a voice saying "hush!"

The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”

There was a short consultation, the hush of something wrong, and a murmur of an objection.

hush, Bella, interrupting her, because I don't deserve it—I know you were going to say so.

My mother took me to a live radio show in downtown Houston, and we had to be all hush as the skits were conducted.

He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”

Word Value for hushes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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