Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb 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.
- noun A sudden copious outflow.
- noun Excessively demonstrative language or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun A sudden and violent emission of a fluid from confinement; outpouring of or as of a liquid.
- noun Effusive display of sentiment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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 Collog. A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.
- intransitive verb To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
- intransitive verb colloq. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sudden rapid outflow . - verb To
flow forth suddenly , ingreat volume . - verb To make an
excessive display ofenthusiasm orsentiment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- verb gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
- noun a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- verb praise enthusiastically
- noun an unrestrained expression of emotion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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Expect the toilet to back up (surge and gush is more likely), and someone you know will get typhus.
The Year of the Rat 2008
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They are part of the world of poison, and of language as poison, the gush from a traumatic wound in the symbolic order which
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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.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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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.
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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.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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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."
Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power" 2008
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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."
Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power" 2008
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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".
Chapter 12 1995
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I have heard several distinguished Americans protest against the "gush," as they call it, in which we indulge.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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