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HUSHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a softened tone
Example:
a quiet reprimand
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hush
Context examples:
The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of her father and sister.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But the thing was hushed up, and never known at court, for the girl was afraid of the queen’s anger; and truly, as to myself, I thought it would not be for my reputation, that such a story should go about.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Mr. Collins moreover adds, 'I am truly rejoiced that my cousin Lydia's sad business has been so well hushed up, and am only concerned that their living together before the marriage took place should be so generally known.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I thought of our house shut up and hushed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There was a scandal about his drenching a dog with petroleum and setting it on fire—her ladyship’s dog, to make the matter worse—and that was only hushed up with difficulty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My mother seemed to speak with a hushed voice when she mentioned this wonderful brother of hers, and always had done as long as I can remember, so that I had learned also to have a subdued and reverent feeling when I heard his name.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed for ever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
They hushed to hear it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
