[ UK /ɡˈʌʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡəʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
    he heard the flush of a toilet
    she attacked him with an outpouring of words
    there was a little gush of blood
  2. an unrestrained expression of emotion
VERB
  1. praise enthusiastically
    She raved about that new restaurant
  2. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
    Water jetted forth
    flames were jetting out of the building
  3. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
    water gushed forth
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How To Use gush In A Sentence

  • Eadie said just before 2 pm, as she was about to prepare a late lunch, she looked out the back door and called out to her mother, pensioner Millie, only to see the gushes of water and slush cascading from the neighbour's yard.
  • The trouble started last Wednesday when we got home to find the overflow pipe gushing water from the side of the house.
  • I'm a bleeder, someone just has to speak to me sharply and I'm gushing pints, so no blood means hopefully no big deal.
  • The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
  • 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
  • “It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," ” he wrote. Archive 2006-03-01
  • there was a little gush of blood
  • The locals are not gushing with enthusiasm and little wonder. The Sun
  • Remember, he is more accustomed to interviews with fawning, gushy, fans, rather than with more hard-nosed journalists.
  • She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
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