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# shush

«shush» in Mova's school dictionary: **a word that tells someone to be quiet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (shush, shushes, shushed, shushing); interjection (shush!)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Shush!» is a word that tells someone to be quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#m1)

2) To shush someone is to tell them to be quiet, often by saying «shh». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: in libraries, cinemas, at bedtime. In stories, a librarian shushes noisy children. Phrases: «shush now», «shush!».

### examples

- Shush! The baby's asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#x1)
- The librarian shushed us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#x2)
- «Shush, I'm trying to listen,» said Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#x3)
- She kept shushing her little brother in the cinema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#x4)
- Shush, or the teacher will hear us! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/#x5)

### note

Informal. Also written «shh» or «sh». Telling an adult «shush» is rude.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.