quieten down vs shush

quieten down

verb
  • To become quieter. 

  • To make someone or something become quieter. 

  • To reduce intensity of an activity. 

shush

verb
  • To be quiet; to keep quiet. 

  • To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh. 

How often have the words quieten down and shush occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )