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hush up

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  1. To become quiet; to cease making sounds. (informal, intransitive) · Hush up now; you have talked too much.
  2. To silence. (informal, transitive) · Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.
  3. To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known. (transitive) · They hushed up the suicide to prevent bad publicity.
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“I have already told you that I can hush up that which others will be bound to publish, and you would really be wiser to take me into your complete confidence.”
《The Return of Sherlock Holmes》,第114页 · C1
When a man is lost it is my duty to ascertain his fate, but having done so the matter ends so far as I am concerned, and so long as there is nothing criminal I am much more anxious to hush up private scandals than to give them publicity.
《The Return of Sherlock Holmes》,第124页 · C1
Moreover, he reckoned much on the interest of the Danglars to hush up the rumor of their own misadventures.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第980页 · C1

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