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# gush

«gush» in Mova's school dictionary: **For a liquid to flow out suddenly and fast in large amounts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (gush, gushes, gushed, gushing); noun (a gush, gushes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) For a liquid to flow out suddenly and fast in large amounts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#m1)

2) A gush is a sudden fast flow: a gush of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#m2)

3) To talk with too much praise or excitement about something, in a way that can sound silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#m3)

4) Things such as flowers can gush up, meaning they spring up quickly in large numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science (water, volcanoes, pipes) and stories (blood, tears, rivers); about people who praise too much. Phrases: gush out, gush from, a gush of water, gush about.

### examples

- Water gushed out of the broken pipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x1)
- Oil gushed from the well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x2)
- A gush of cold air came in when the door opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x3)
- She gushed about how wonderful the film was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x4)
- Tears gushed down his cheeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x5)
- The river gushes over the rocks after rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x6)
- The violets gushed up along the wayside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/#x7)

### note

Past: gushed. Gush is stronger and faster than flow or trickle. Gushing praise can be a bit too much or not quite sincere.

### In the corpora

- [And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.679/)
- [They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1678/)
- [He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1902/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.