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upgush

upgush noun: a gushing upward.

Noun

upgush (plural upgushes)

  1. (archaic) A gushing upward.
    • […] consuls, emperors, and popes, the great men of every age, have found no better way of immortalizing their memories than by the shifting, indestructible, ever new, yet unchanging, upgush and downfall of water.1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun

Verb

upgush (third-person singular simple present upgushes, present participle upgushing, simple past and past participle upgushed)

  1. (obsolete) To gush upward.

Forms of upgush

Noun
pluralupgushes
Verb
third-person singular presentupgushes
present participleupgushing
past participleupgushed
pastupgushed

Origin of upgush

From up- + gush.

Questions about upgush

What does upgush mean?
Upgush means a gushing upward.
What part of speech is upgush?
Upgush can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of upgush?
The plural of upgush is upgushes.

Words near upgush in the dictionary

  1. upgrowths
  2. upgun
  3. upgunned
  4. upgunning
  5. upguns
  6. upgush
  7. upgushed
  8. upgushes
  9. upgushing
  10. upgushings
  11. Uphall

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