_Gush_
Verb.
Pronunciation: gʌʃ.
Etymology: of uncertain origin.
Preterite tense: gushed; preterite participle: gushed; present participle: gushing.
Intransitively: 1. (Of a fluid) to issue or flow copiously out from the body that confines it; to be emitted strongly.
Synonyms: to spout, stream, pour, spurt, jet, well, squirt.
Translation: jaillir in French; sgorgare, in Italian; brotar, in Spanish.
Particular syntax: with the preposition from, followed by a noun, with which the place of confinement is designated. With the adverbs down, in, forth, out, up, to denote direction.
[…] the blood gushed from his ears and nostrils.
Oscar Wilde… The Young King
The tears gushed from my eyes as I beheld him.
Charles Lever… Tom Burke of "Ours"
Around us gushed water from the bricks which lined the side of the pit, and fell with a dreary, splashing sound, far, far below.
William Howitt… The Boy's Country-Book
We skirted the great lava flood, which has gushed from Eiriks.
Sabine Baring-Gould… Iceland
Once or twice they had stopped at some spot where water, limpid as the air, gushed from the rocks.
James Cooper… The Heathcotes
A fountain of bright waters gushed up.
The Ladies' Companion, vol. 16-17
He took a crowbar to ascertain what the under strata was, and stuck it down into the bog the length of the bar, and upon withdrawing it, the water gushed up in a steady stream, running off into his ditch.
Theodore Dwight… American Penny Magazine
A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in, damp, glacial, and edged with the penetrating keenness of a Chicago evening at the end of February.
Frank Norris… The Pit
[…] I pried open the window […]. Rain gushed in like water squirting out of a fire hose.
Ted Sabine… Crows in the Autumn Sky
[…] the thick white vapour began to gush forth.
Charles Dickens… Household words
Sparkling streams gushed down the rocks in silver foam.
Bayard Taylor… Travels in Greece
The cool springs and limpid rills which gushed out in all parts of the mountains, and the abundant streams which for a great part of the year were supplied by the Sierra Nevada, spread a perpetual verdure over the skirts and slopes of the hills.
Washington Irving… Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
2. (Of a person, a part of his body, etc.) to suffer or undergo a gush.
Particular syntax: with the preposition with, followed by a noun, with which the fluid is designated.
The streets were here and there blocked up by great wine-presses, which, as they were screwed down, gushed with purple spouts into all sorts of tubs, and jars, and pannikins.
George Cayley… Las Alforjas
Her eyes gushed with tears.
Fanny Burney… Camilla
An avenue of formal poplars traverses the verdant flat meadows, gushing with rills of water.
John Murray… Hand-book for travellers in France
3. (Metaphorically) to act with exaggerated exhibition of emotion. Particularly, to speak with exaggerated exhibition of emotion.
You must think I'm a stalker, a total crazy person,” Eden gushed.
Jill Kargman… Arm Candy
She has gushed about expectations for the new baby's health and possible names.
Katie Ward… Girl Reading
English words derived from gush: gusher, gushing, gush (noun), gushily, gushiness, gushingly, gushingness, gushy.
