hush up
verb- To become quiet; to cease making sounds. · Hush up now; you have talked too much.
- To silence. · Some people say he knew too much and they killed him to hush him up.
- To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known. · 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.”
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.
Moreover, he reckoned much on the interest of the Danglars to hush up the rumor of their own misadventures.
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