hushing

verb

present participle of hush
1
as in cooling
to become still and orderly the whole room hushed when the queen made her entrance

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2
as in quieting (down)
to stop talking the principal asked the children to hush and pay attention during the ceremony

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3
as in shushing
to stop the noise or speech of he tried to hush the baby by making a lot of silly faces

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Recent Examples of hushing If you’re used to traditional decluttering strategies that focus on sorting and purging, house hushing might feel strange. — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026 There are a lot of ways to declutter out there—the pile method and the discernment method are two of them, and now, everyone’s hushing their house. — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025 Unfortunately, the austerity and elegance of the downstairs dining room acts as a dampener, hushing the salad’s brashness and sapping much of the fun. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hushing
  1. cooling
  2. drying up
  3. shushing
  4. clamming up
  5. silencing
  6. quieting
  7. muting
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  • Choose from energizing citrus, cooling eucalyptus and peppermint, calming lavender or a variety pack with five different scents – an easy way to add a little luxury to your daily routine.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • For even more cooling properties and pressure relief, consider the brand’s upgraded luxe memory foam mattress.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of cooling
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  • There isn’t much wiggle room to miss on home run props without drying up the season’s profits.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Four and a half years later, American aid is drying up, Ukraine has replaced Bayraktar drones with more effective weapons of its own, and the country’s weapon designers have moved well beyond their low-tech garages.
    — Thomas Nagorski, Time, 27 July 2026
Definition of drying up
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  • Trae Young won Madison Square Garden’s undying enmity in the 2021 playoffs for the Atlanta Hawks, punctuating game-breaking shots by shushing the crowd or bowing to the fans and waving goodbye.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
  • Wine country with kids in tow doesn’t have to mean a stressful afternoon of shushing and screen time.
    — Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026
Definition of shushing
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  • Less sweat-trapping than many synthetic jackets, the Oreus kept me from clamming up while ski-touring in five-degree temps and dissipated sweat quickly when worn after strenuous climbs.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of clamming up
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  • The researchers went further, looking at liver cells in the lab to see if silencing FNIP1 could turn on fat-burning genes.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Trust the Brontës to be a squadron of Shtumtroopers, silencing people to bits.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of silencing
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  • Performed beneath a continuous gentle rain of warm seawater, this experience combines mineral-rich marine exposure and thermal comfort soothing aching muscles along the way and quieting the mind.
    — Rana Good, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2026
  • However, the Rams’ acquisition of Garrett puts a team that was firmly a Super Bowl favorite back in the conversation for a 2026 Super Bowl run, quieting the doubters who rose after the 2026 NFL Draft.
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Definition of quieting
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  • During the third act, in a cunning effect, when anyone picks up a phone, the screen’s contents are displayed on a wall as the lights fade, muting the friends onstage.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
  • But the field has struggled to figure out a means of delivering RNA-muting molecules into organs and tissues beyond the liver, which has limited their reach.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 9 June 2026
Definition of muting

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