Gush
[gʌʃ] or [ɡʌʃ]
Definition
(v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
(v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Spout out, burst forth, rush forth (as a liquid), flow out suddenly.
n. Rush (as of a liquid), sudden efflux or outflow.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Burst, stream, flow, gush, spout, rush, pour_out, flow_out
ANT:Drip, drop, dribble, trickle, strain, drain, ooze, filter,[See{[percolt{<]?}]
Edited by Lancelot
Definition
v.i. to flow out with violence or copiously: to be effusive or highly sentimental.—n. that which flows out: a violent issue of a fluid.—n. Gush′er an oil-well not needing to be pumped.—adj. Gush′ing rushing forth with violence as a liquid: flowing copiously: effusive.—adv. Gush′ingly.—adj. Gush′y effusively sentimental.
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Examples
- Little did my poor aunt imagine what a gush of devout thankfulness thrilled through me as she approached the close of her melancholy story. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Does not its gush of song thrill your heart? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I sometimes think if an abundant gush of happiness came on me I could revive yet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was not a plain story, however, no simple gush of feeling, no ordinary love-confession--that was obvious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If a one-inch tap were inserted in the bottom of the vessel so that the water flowed out, it would gush forth with a force of 4. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It required all her self-command, to suppress the gush of tears self-pity caused at this idea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not very well seeing his way to a refusal, Mr Wegg then rejoined in a gush, '--Hear me out! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I veil my eyes in terror of the change, and gushing tears bear witness to my sympathy for this unimaginable ruin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What fragrant coolness revived him; what gushing sound was that? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My heart, the field of combat, was wounded by the iron heel of the one, watered by the gushing tears of the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You must bring us all kinds of things from Greece, Maurice, said Mrs Dengelton in her usual gushing manner. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When he was gone, Dorothea's tears gushed forth, and relieved her stifling oppression. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And the tears gushed to her fine eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Tears also gushed from the eyes of Clerval, as he read the account of my misfortune. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The first wells sunk gushed thousands of barrels a day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations, and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If the leak is quite low, as at _c_, the issuing stream has a still greater speed and strength, and gushes forth with a force determined by the height of the water above _c_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Edited by Fred