shushing

verb

present participle of shush
as in silencing
to stop the noise or speech of shushed the crying baby

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Recent Examples of shushing Trae Young won Madison Square Garden’s undying enmity in the 2021 playoffs for the Atlanta Hawks, punctuating game-breaking shots by shushing the crowd or bowing to the fans and waving goodbye. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 9 June 2026 Wine country with kids in tow doesn’t have to mean a stressful afternoon of shushing and screen time. — Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026 Levy sat on the floor, watching like a proud father and shushing whisperers. — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 Top sleep aid for kids This extremely popular sound machine uses an authentic human voice to calm babies to sleep with a calming, shushing sound. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026 Kempe then put a gloved finger to his lips, shushing the sixth consecutive sellout crowd in Anaheim. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026 After once rising from her seat to scold a man recording the broadcast on his phone to shushing in-studio viewers during an interview with Zohran Mamdani, Whoopi Goldberg just wrote another chapter in her comical relationship with The View's studio audience. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026 The snow was shushing off the roof of the garage and down on the driveway. — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025 In the clip, the then-6-year-old can be seen walking with his iPad to the next room and shushing everyone. — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shushing
  1. silencing
  2. hushing
  3. quieting
  4. muting
  5. settling
Verb
  • Wainua's failure means that Alnylam's drug Amvuttra will be the only silencer, giving it a monopoly in the $15 billion to $20 billion market for ATTR cardiomyopathy silencing drugs, Oppenheimer analyst Kostas Biliouris wrote in a note Thursday.
    — Elsa Ohlen,Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • England weathered the storm, silencing the sea of green with a ruthless finishing display to escape with a dramatic 3-2 victory.
    — Alejandro Avila, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of silencing
Verb
  • There are a lot of ways to declutter out there—the pile method and the discernment method are two of them, and now, everyone’s hushing their house.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the austerity and elegance of the downstairs dining room acts as a dampener, hushing the salad’s brashness and sapping much of the fun.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
Definition of hushing
Verb
  • However, the Rams’ acquisition of Garrett puts a team that was firmly a Super Bowl favorite back in the conversation for a 2026 Super Bowl run, quieting the doubters who rose after the 2026 NFL Draft.
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • The company says the device supports sleep by lowering cortisol within minutes, slowing the heart, quieting racing thoughts and shifting users into parasympathetic mode.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
Definition of quieting
Verb
  • During the third act, in a cunning effect, when anyone picks up a phone, the screen’s contents are displayed on a wall as the lights fade, muting the friends onstage.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
  • But the field has struggled to figure out a means of delivering RNA-muting molecules into organs and tissues beyond the liver, which has limited their reach.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 9 June 2026
Definition of muting
Verb
  • DeGrom suffered first-inning struggles before settling in, his pattern this season.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • And finally, the popular sci-fi epic is settling in for what's hopefully a long stay on Prime Video that started on July 3, just in time for the long Independence Day weekend in the United States.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of settling

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“Shushing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shushing. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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