Gush

Word GUSH
Character 4
Hyphenation gush
Pronunciations /ˈɡʌʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Gush"

What do we mean by gush?

To flow forth suddenly in great volume. intransitive verb

To emit a sudden and abundant flow, as of tears. intransitive verb

To make an excessive display of sentiment or enthusiasm. intransitive verb

To emit abundantly; pour forth. intransitive verb

A sudden copious outflow. noun

Excessively demonstrative language or behavior. noun

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.

A sudden and violent emission of a fluid from confinement; outpouring of or as of a liquid. noun

Effusive display of sentiment. noun

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. transitive verb

A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. transitive verb

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. intransitive verb

To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. intransitive verb

A sudden rapid outflow. noun

To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. verb

To make an excessive display of enthusiasm or sentiment. verb

Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth verb

A sudden rapid outflow.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gush

The word "gush" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Expect the toilet to back up (surge and gush is more likely), and someone you know will get typhus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They are part of the world of poison, and of language as poison, the gush from a traumatic wound in the symbolic order which ❋ Unknown (1997)

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. ❋ Unknown (1890)

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. ❋ Unknown (1852)

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. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

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." ❋ Unknown (2008)

During labour, the bag of water surrounding the baby in the womb often tears, and the water escapes through the vagina in a "gush". ❋ Unknown (1995)

I have heard several distinguished Americans protest against the "gush," as they call it, in which we indulge. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

And the same tendency to "gush" is here again apparent. ❋ Walter Rowlands (N/A)

If you guess you're looking for gold, it's a thousand dollars to a dime you find coal, or drown yourself in a 'gush' of oil. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

He could have understood "gush," and sentimentalism, but this attitude of which he had neither heard nor read bothered him until one day he had a sudden, flash of enlightenment. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

They are naturally reserved, laconic of speech, without "gush," far from lavish in compliment, slow to commit themselves or to give their confidence without good and proved reason. ❋ Ronald John McNeill (1897)

"'Gush,'" said the Philosopher, reflecting, "'gush' would hardly be the correct word." ❋ Unknown (1893)

Innocent murmured something gently deprecatory as a palliative to this sort of society "gush" which always troubled her -- and moved on. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

One would give many pages of the _Letters_ for that naïf admission that "gush" is "a great thing." ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

They do not care to remember that it is no whit better to wither under the influence of ignorance or sentiment, to cultivate a fondness for "gush," than to dry up the sensibilities like a book-worm, or grow rigid and priggish as a pedant. ❋ Unknown (1888)

He hated "gush," he said to himself; he did not want to be bothered with details of yarn-gloves, flannel petticoats, and toys. ❋ Thomas Nelson Page (1887)

As Dickens's humorous characters tend perpetually to run into caricatures and grotesques, so his sentiment, from the same excess, slops over too frequently into "gush," and into a too deliberate and protracted attack upon the pity. ❋ Unknown (1886)

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