shush

1. (onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet.Examples: "He wouldn't shush so I kicked him."; "Shush, my parents are back!"intransitiveonomatopoeic

2. (onomatopoeia, transitive or intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.Examples: "The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him."; "The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?"intransitiveonomatopoeictransitive