hushed

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hush/hʌʃ/

▶verb

• 1 make or become quiet.

• 2 (hush something up) suppress public mention of something.

▶noun a silence.

– derivatives
hushed adjective.

– origin C16: back-form. from obs. husht ‘silent’, from an interjection husht ‘quiet!’.