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Shushes vs Hushes - What's the difference?

shushes | hushes |

As verbs the difference between shushes and hushes

is that shushes is third-person singular of shush while hushes is third-person singular of hush.

shushes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shush)

    • shush

    English

    Verb

  • (onomatopoeia) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
    • He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
  • (onomatopoeia, transitive, or, intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying (m).
    • The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.

    See also

    * (l)

    hushes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hush)

    • hush

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • to become quiet
  • to make quiet
  • To appease; to allay; to soothe.
  • * Otway
    • Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
  • * Tennyson
    • And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A silence, especially after some noise
  • * Byron
    • It is the hush of night.
    (Byron)
  • A mining method using water

    • Derived terms

    * hush money * hush puppy * hush up * hushaby * husher * hushful * hush-hire * hush-hush * hush-shop English ergative verbs ----