All shush synonyms

verb shush

• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
• gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
• hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
• dummy up — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
• dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• hold one's tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
• clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
• clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
• burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• corking — excellent
• cool out — to relax and cool down
• dulling — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• dumb — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
• burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
• hush — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• clam up — If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets.
• choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
• beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
• overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
• cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
• balmed — simple past tense and past participle of balm.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• euphemize — Refer to (something unpleasant or embarrassing) by means of a euphemism.
• corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
• iced — of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
• clammed — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.