Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gushing upward: as, an upgush of feeling. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 155.
- To gush upward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gushing upward.
- intransitive verb To gush upward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A gushing upward -
Hawthorne - verb obsolete : To gush upward.
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Examples
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She stood like the rejoicing upgush of a living fountain.
Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Barney himself, she could not quell the upgush of emotion in her bosom, as she snatched the little Indian once, in secret, to her heart.
Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877
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It seems as if the great men of every age in this city "have found no better way of immortalizing their memories than by the shifting, indestructible, ever-new, ever-changing upgush and downfall of water.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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