VERB
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cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
She tried to gloss over her mistakes
Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin -
cause to be quiet or not talk
Please silence the children in the church!
How To Use hush up In A Sentence
- They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
- She's probably trying to get her dear dad to hush up.
- The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
- The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
- She kept asking what was wrong, but her mother merely told her to hush up, and run faster.
- And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter -- an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face. The River and I
- The almighty trade dollar shouldn't hush up public debate on this - to treat the welfare of animals so carelessly is a discredit to us all.
- The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
- ‘Oh hush up,’ she said and rolled the sleeves back down, put the jacket back on and zipped it up.
- The President tried to hush up the fact that his adviser had lied.
