Crossword-Solution: HUSHING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Hushing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Hush |
| Hushing | n. | The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HUSHING”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Activity in libraries and movie theaters | 1 answer |
| Quieting | 1 answer |
| Saying "Shhh!" to | 1 answer |
| Stilling. | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "HUSHING"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZACEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
10 +1
New Suggestion for "HUSHING"
Related word tools
Sentences with HUSHING (5)
Dead darkness lay on all the landscape, dead darkness added its own hush to the hushing dust on all the roads.
Home of my youth! no more, through all the length of the years, No more to the place of the echoes of early laughter and tears, No more shall Rua return; no more as the evening ends, To crowded eyes of welcome, to the reaching hands of friends.” All day long from the High-place the drums and the singing came, And the even fell, and the sun went down, a wheel of flame; And night came gleaning the shadows and hushing the sounds of the wood; And silence slept on all, where Rua sorrowed and stood.
Her mother, her eyes dwelling fondly upon several shawls she hoped were intended for herself alone, was hushing the baby to sleep in the deep chair of his excellency.
The poor man was very uncomfortable, for the children had bereft him of his wife, home was merely a nursery and the perpetual ‘hushing’ made him feel like a brutal intruder whenever he entered the sacred precincts of Babyland.
But they was all impatient and eager, too, and they wouldn't wait very long, although now they was hushing each other and leaning forward.
Quotes with HUSHING (3)
It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal one. What happens there is mostly silent. I think I've always liked the whispering aspect of libraries, the hushing librarians and my feeling of solitude among many.
From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about in mazy courses, it passed away, at length, through a shadowy gorge, among hills still dimmer than those whence it had issued. We called it the "River of Silence"; for there seemed to be a hushing influence in its flow. No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered alon…
The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched, — criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, — this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).