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gush

/ˈɡʌʃ/

gush noun: a sudden rapid outflow.

Noun

gush (plural gushes)

  1. A sudden rapid outflow.
    • There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

Verb

gush (third-person singular simple present gushes, present participle gushing, simple past and past participle gushed)

  1. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
    • Water gushed out of the broken pipe.
    • After he was stabbed, blood came gushing out his throat.
    Synonyms:
    spurt, spew
  2. (also, figuratively, transitive) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
    • The other was no longer capable of controlling his anger; his parasite creature amplified his passion by ten; his jaws cracked open and his great mouth gushed blood from torn gums as teeth grew out of them like bone sickles.1993, Brian Lumley, Blood Brothers, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 119
    • A beautiful spring gushed water from the ground in this mountainous sector of Polk County, inspiring the name of the place.2001, Larry L. Miller, Tennessee Place-names, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 196
  3. (especially, intransitive) To ejaculate during orgasm.
    • Her orgasm exploded over her, making her writhe and cry out his name. She gushed over his hand, her cunt gripping and releasing his invading fingers.2008, Anya Bast, The Chosen Sin, Penguin, →ISBN, page 154
    • Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed.2009, Emma Holly, Kissing Midnight, Penguin, →ISBN
  4. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
    • The young mother was gushing over a baby.
    • Miss Johnson gushed approval with her usual air of coquettish superiority.1911, Thompson Buchanan, Making People Happy, page 14

gush meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

gush in Hindi

to flow forth suddenly
भलभलाना bhalabhlānā, फूटना phūṭnā, उमड़ना umaṛnā, उछलना uchalnā

gush in Tamil

பீறிட்டுப் பெருகி வழிகின்ற

gush in Urdu

بہاؤ, پھٹ پڑ کر بہنا

gush in Bengali

বেগে নির্গত হওয়া, উচ্ছ্বসিত হয়ে বলা
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gush in Telugu
చేపు cēpu
gush in Malayalam
വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം, അമിതമായ ആവേശം, ഊറ്റമായി പ്രവഹിപ്പിക്കുക, നിസ്യന്ദിക്കുക
gush in Thai
พุ่ง pûng

Examples of gush in a sentence

  • All the complaints she'd bottled up came gushing out during their marriage counselling session.
  • Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
  • On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue.1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, stanza...
  • From cracks and holes in the wall water gushes out under high pressure as if from a huge burst water pipe.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 535:
  • […] she pulled off an amazing orgasm, one after another, she gushed with force, […]2014, Stewart N. Johnson, Parthian Stranger 2 Conspiracy, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

All 40 example sentences with gush

Synonyms of gush

Forms of gush

Noun
pluralgushes
Verb
third-person singular presentgushes
present participlegushing
past participlegushed
pastgushed

Past tense of gush: gushed

Plural of gush: gushes

Origin of gush

From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.

Words formed from gush

Words that rhyme with gush

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Questions about gush

What does gush mean?
Gush means a sudden rapid outflow.
What is gush in Hindi?
Gush in Hindi is भलभलाना (bhalabhlānā), फूटना (phūṭnā), उमड़ना (umaṛnā). See Gush meaning in Hindi.
How do you use gush in a sentence?
All the complaints she'd bottled up came gushing out during their marriage counselling session.
What part of speech is gush?
Gush can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce gush?
Gush is pronounced /ˈɡʌʃ/.
What is the plural of gush?
The plural of gush is gushes.

Words near gush in the dictionary

  1. gusband
  2. gusbands
  3. Guse
  4. guselkumab
  5. Guses
  6. gush
  7. Gushan
  8. Gushanian
  9. gushed
  10. gusher
  11. gushers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gush (page history and authors); gush (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gush (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gush (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చేపు (Telugu) (page history and authors); gush (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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