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View synonyms for hush up

hush up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to suppress information or rumours about
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Keep from public knowledge, suppress mention of. For example, They tried to hush up the damaging details . [First half of 1600s]
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Example Sentences

In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.

Additionally, he suggested that the Vatican is involved in the cover-up and that, oh, by the way, people have been murdered to keep all this hushed up.

Addiction and overdose fatalities are often still hushed up in Hattiesburg, Mr. Moore said.

One note suggests the first lady sought to reclaim diamond earrings given by the Czech Republic, but tried to keep it all hushed up.

Harry is suing Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article alleging he tried to hush up his separate legal challenge over the British government’s refusal to let him pay for police security.

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