HUSHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hushed mean? 

• HUSHED (adjective)
  The adjective HUSHED has 1 sense:

1. in a softened tone

  Familiarity information: HUSHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUSHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a softened tone

Synonyms:

hushed; muted; quiet; subdued

Context example:

a quiet reprimand

Similar:

soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)

 Context examples 

The noise of wheels and tread of people were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth with feathers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When they hushed the astrocytes in rats by reducing transmitter release, the rats breathed and sighed at a lower rate than normal.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

All sound had hushed in the audience and everyone was absorbed in the spectacle before them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we got back to Scotland it was easily hushed up, and nobody asked any questions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“This is where they played the cards, Jim,” said I, in a hushed voice.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No: stillness returned: each murmur and movement ceased gradually, and in about an hour Thornfield Hall was again as hushed as a desert.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am sure it will be all hushed up, and nothing proved but Rushworth's folly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Dennin answered, "'Tis very simple. I was thinkin'—" But she hushed him abruptly, asked him to wait, and hurried to Hans's bedside.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)