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Ushes vs Hushes - What's the difference?

ushes | hushes |

As verbs the difference between ushes and hushes

is that ushes is (ush) while hushes is (hush).

ushes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ush)

    • ush

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (colloquial, rare, transitive, and, intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
  • * 2000 , Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life , BalonaBooks (2006), ISBN 978-0-9765479-6-9, page 142:
    • And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.

    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 ----