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hush up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to suppress information or rumours about
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Keep from public knowledge, suppress mention of. For example, They tried to hush up the damaging details . [First half of 1600s]
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He added: "Unless the process is absolutely right, then there'll still be a lingering doubt that things have been hushed up or swept under a carpet."

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In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.

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Additionally, he suggested that the Vatican is involved in the cover-up and that, oh, by the way, people have been murdered to keep all this hushed up.

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Addiction and overdose fatalities are often still hushed up in Hattiesburg, Mr. Moore said.

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One note suggests the first lady sought to reclaim diamond earrings given by the Czech Republic, but tried to keep it all hushed up.

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