Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant.
- v. To emit a sudden and abundant flow, as of tears.
- v. To make an excessive display of sentiment or enthusiasm: gushed over the baby.
- v. To emit abundantly; pour forth.
- n. A sudden copious outflow: a gush of tears.
- n. Excessively demonstrative language or behavior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To issue with force and volume, as a fluid from confinement; flow suddenly or copiously; come pouring out, as water from a spring or blood from a wound.
- Hence To speak effusively or from a sudden emotional impulse; be extravagantly and effusively sentimental.
- To emit suddenly, forcibly, or copiously.
- n. A sudden and violent emission of a fluid from confinement; outpouring of or as of a liquid.
- n. Effusive display of sentiment.
Wiktionary
- n. A sudden rapid outflow.
- v. To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
- v. To make an excessive display of enthusiasm or sentiment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
- v. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
- v. A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything.
- v. A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.
WordNet 3.0
- v. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- v. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
- n. a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- v. praise enthusiastically
- n. an unrestrained expression of emotion
Etymologies
- Middle English gushen, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“For a Hollywood horror film, that is quite a feat when the weird seems to gush from the wounds of multi-million dollar projects that often strive for shock over true substance or coherency.”
“Expect the toilet to back up (surge and gush is more likely), and someone you know will get typhus.”
“They are part of the world of poison, and of language as poison, the gush from a traumatic wound in the symbolic order which”
“Then it saw the charmer and it darted for him, but he cunningly caught it by the head and with such a grip that I saw the blood gush from the snake's month.”
“Yes, regardless of the eager crowds around me, I leant upon the side of the vessel and cried like a child – not tears of sorrow, but a gush from the heart of pure and unalloyed delight.”
“Their gush was a trifle nauseating; their mean worship of money gave one a shiver, and the relish with which they described their hero's exploits would have been comic were it not for the before-mentioned nausea.”
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“The authors refer to this as the "gushing phenomenon" that led western journalists to "gush" over the fall of Baghdad and later the transfer of "sovereignty" in the country's "first democratic elections in 50 years in January, 2005.”
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“During labour, the bag of water surrounding the baby in the womb often tears, and the water escapes through the vagina in a "gush".”
“I have heard several distinguished Americans protest against the "gush," as they call it, in which we indulge.”
“And the same tendency to "gush" is here again apparent.”
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