Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gush
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ʌʃ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: spurt, spirt, gush, spout
    Meaning: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth"
  • Synonyms: rave, gush
    Meaning: praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant"
Usage examples
  • But it's simply impossible for me to gush.
  • This action, together with the tears which he saw gush from my eyes, moved his compassion.
  • "Oh, rubbish!" Harrington blew the exclamation out around his pipe-stem with a gush of smoke.
  • He felt his wrist caught in an iron grip, felt the blood gush where his temple was cut by the last missile.
  • I've borrowed money from my wife--and other places.'--He was too proud to add, 'This is confidential.'--'My boy's just entered college, my girl's just come out. It isn't just the money--' a gush of emotion reddened his face--'You've got to pull me through, Cargan.
  • What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up to discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy tears, that it was really old South Wales. This at least seems to me the main problem for philosophers, and is in a manner the main problem of this book.
  • I could talk a while when the evening commenced, but the first gush of vivacity and fluency gone, I was fain to sit on a stool at Diana's feet, to rest my head on her knee, and listen alternately to her and Mary, while they sounded thoroughly the topic on which I had but touched.