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    shush
    /ʃʌʃ/

    exclamation

    • 1. be quiet: "Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?"

    noun

    • 1. an utterance of ‘shush’: "the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts"
    • 2. a soft swishing or rustling sound: "the ‘shush, shush, shush’ of a broom on the tent's groundsheet"

    verb

    • 1. tell or signal (someone) to be silent: "she shushed him with a wave"
    • 2. move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound: "I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past"

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