Hush!..とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/
• 韻: -ʌʃ

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11:

     VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:

     And hush’d my deepest grief of all.

4. (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.

派生語

名詞

hush (countable and uncountable, plural hushes)

1. A silence, especially after some noise
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI:

     It is the hush of night.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:

     And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.

派生語

アナグラム

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