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Hushing

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quietenverb	(transitive, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) To make quiet.
quiet downverb	(intransitive, US) To become quieter.
quiesceverb	(intransitive) To become quiet or quieter.
hush upverb	(intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
pipe downverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.
quietnoun	With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
stillnessnoun	The quality or state of being still.
silencenoun	The absence of any sound.
stillnoun	Not moving; calm.
shut upverb	(ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
hushernoun	Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.
shushingverb	The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
shushernoun	Someone who shushes, insisting on silence
hushlingnoun	a term of endearment
wheeshnoun	Silence; hush.
hushabynoun	A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep.
shusheenoun	(rare) A person who is shushed.
whispernoun	The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially without vibration of the vocal cords.
hush-hushnoun	Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
squelchnoun	(radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.

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