What does shush mean?
Shush means (onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet..
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/ʃʊʃ/ · verb
(onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet..
He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
Shush, my parents are back!
The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?
To this day, many in the spelling world rebuff supernatural claims: On the podcast, parents say that they’ve been “shushed” in online forums, or “shut down” from sharing their experiences at conferences.
Use shush when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shush means (onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
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