English

Alternative forms

• hushup
• hush-up

Verb

hush up ‎(third-person singular simple present hushes up, present participle hushing up, simple past and past participle hushed up)

1. (intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
2. (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known.

   They hushed up that it was a suicide to prevent bad publicity.

Synonyms

(become quiet): hush, hush down, quiet down, quieten down, shut up

Translations

See also

• conspiracy of silence, wall of silence