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What does hush up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hush up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, informal) To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
  2. (transitive) To keep secret, to prevent from becoming known.
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The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you.
At times, our schools seem to hush up our history, as if they feared to awaken old divisions.
She kept asking what was wrong, but her mother merely told her to hush up, and run faster.
He's been owed a trophy for years, and if he gets one, maybe he can finally hush up about how comic actors are perennially overlooked.
If the international community was kept away in order to hush up any exactions carried out, that would of course be intolerable.
However, owners of energy assets prefer to hush up the fact that they include their investment costs in tariffs.

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