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Gush   /gəʃ/   Listen
verb
Gush  v. t.  
1.
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; as, a gush of song from a bird. "The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains."
2.
A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. (Collog.)


Gush  v. i.  (past & past part. gushed; pres. part. gushing)  
1.
To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. "He smote the rock that the waters gushed out." "A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound."
2.
To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. (Colloq.)





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"Gush" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a crime covered with darkness, a coffin closed and silent, from the cracks in which streams of blood gush forth. ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo
... quite up town, almost to the region of pig-pens and cabbage-gardens which is now the Central Park. And after just the first gush of my ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale
... foaming gush of bubbles showed that the sub ahead was blowing its tanks. The jetmarine followed as it surfaced and Bud hastily ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... heard, and raising his head, stared at me with his fine, melancholy eyes. Then suddenly from those eyes there came a gush of tears. More, he knelt before me and kissed the ground, as the humblest of his slaves might ...
— The Virgin of the Sun • H. R. Haggard
... world around us—we would soon be healed while striving to heal others. Of this I am convinced: the secret of life, and of all its good, is in love; and while we preserve this, we can never fail of comfort. The sweet waters will always gush out over the sandiest desert of our lives while we can love; but without it—nay, not the merest weed of comfort or of virtue would grow under the feet of angels. In this was the distinction between Mrs Arden and Julia Reay. The one had hardened her heart ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424, New Series, February 14, 1852 • Various


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