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🌙 A calm silence 🤫 To make quiet 💦 To wash soil
to hush

to hush

9.9
Use running water to wash soil away to find gold or other minerals
  • verb
  • /hʌʃ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : hacer un lavado hidráulico

Examples

  • It's a collection of accounts, passwords and pins accessing the compound interest on the hushed up money that MPs skimmed off their expenses BEFORE the scandal of '09.

    The Pay Day (2022)

  • The miners used water to hush the soil, uncovering precious gems beneath the surface.

  • To search for minerals, they hushed the land by running water across the terrain.

  • They hushed the gravel, revealing a hidden vein of gold in the stream bed.

Idioms

on the hush
  • Informal
1 8.6

In secret and quietly so nobody finds out

Phrasal Verbs

to hush up
  • Informal
2 5.0

Make someone stop talking and be quiet

to hush up
  • Informal
2 7.2

Stop people finding out about a mistake, crime, or embarrassing event

Compounds

hush money
20 6.3

Money paid to someone to keep quiet about a secret that could cause trouble

hush-hush
  • Informal
13 7.5

People keep it secret from most others to avoid being noticed

hush puppy
  • US
4 5.3

A small deep-fried ball made from cornmeal with spices served as a side

How Forceful

scour
  • Specialized
1 7.7
to hush
  • Archaic
9.9
to sluice
  • Specialized
1 7.4
wash
  • US
22 8.1

Surface Forms

hush infinitive
hushed past
hushed past participle
hushing present participle
hushes third person singular

Etymology

Hush also had an old mining meaning: to hush (called 'hushing') was to let a strong flow of water wash away soil to find minerals, and a helpful way to remember this is to imagine water 'hushing' a hillside to show what is under the ground.