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gush

(gŭsh)

v. gushed, gush·ing, gush·es

v.intr.

1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant.

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

3. To make an excessive display of sentiment or enthusiasm: gushed over the baby.

v.tr.

To emit abundantly; pour forth.

1. A sudden copious outflow: a gush of tears.

2. Excessively demonstrative language or behavior.

[Middle English gushen, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	gushing - flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" pouring running - (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water"
	2.	gushing - uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones" burbling, burbly, effusive lively - full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party"
	3.	gushing - extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" gushy, effusive demonstrative - given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family"

gushing

adjective effusive, enthusiastic, extravagant, fulsome, over-effusive He delivered a gushing speech.

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Translations

مُندَفِعَه ، مُبالِغَه في الكلام

nadšenýpřekypující citem

overstrømmende

überschwenglich

exubérant jaillissement

áradozó

tilfinningasamur, mærîarfullur

osannante sgorgante

prekypujúci citom

coşanheyecanlı

滔滔不绝的

gushing

[ˈgʌʃɪŋ] ADJ → efusivo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gushing

[ˈgʌʃɪŋ] adj

[person] → trop exubérant(e), trop expansif/ive

[compliments] → exagéré(e)

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gushing

adj

water → sprudelnd, (heraus)schießend

(fig) → überschwänglich; talk → schwärmerisch, überschwänglich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gushing

[ˈgʌʃɪŋ] adj (water) → zampillante (pej) (person) → svenevole; (compliments) → affettato

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gush

(gaʃ) verb

1. (of liquids) to flow out suddenly and in large amounts. Blood gushed from his wound.

2. to exaggerate one's enthusiasm etc while talking. The lady kept gushing about her husband's success.

noun

a sudden flowing (of a liquid). a gush of water.

ˈgushing adjective

speaking or spoken in an exaggerated manner. gushing remarks; She's a bit too gushing for me.

ˈgushingly adverb

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'Tis night: now do all gushing fountains speak louder.

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He knows that art in all its forms has everything to hope from the new generations whose genius, still in the germ, can be heard gushing forth in our studios.

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In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, gushing out of a rock covered with firs, and forming a constant cascade of about thirty feet, not carried down a regular flight of steps, but tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel, that with many lesser falls winded along, till it fell into a lake at the foot of the hill, about a quarter of a mile below the house on the south side, and which was seen from every room in the front.

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The first thing that they saw was a spacious hall, and a fountain in the middle of it, gushing up towards the ceiling out of a marble basin, and falling back into it with a continual plash.

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We put in a little iron pump, one of the first turned out by my works near the capital; we bored into a stone reservoir which stood against the outer wall of the well-chamber and inserted a section of lead pipe that was long enough to reach to the door of the chapel and project beyond the threshold, where the gushing water would be visible to the two hundred and fifty acres of people I was intending should be present on the flat plain in front of this little holy hillock at the proper time.

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Korak had not needed her aid, for the great bull had been already as good as dead, with the blood gushing from his torn jugular; but Korak rose smiling with a word of approbation for his helper.

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