Overview of verb hush-up

The verb hush up has 2 senses

• whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush up -- (cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes")


• hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up -- (cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!")

Overview of adj hushed-up

The adj hushed-up has 1 sense

• hushed-up -- ((used of information or news) kept secret by using influence; "hushed-up stories sometimes leak out")