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 →

2) A gush is a sudden fast flow: a gush of water. tree →

3) To talk with too much praise or excitement about something, in a way that can sound silly. tree →

4) Things such as flowers can gush up, meaning they spring up quickly in large numbers. tree →

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 →
• Oil gushed from the well. tree →
• A gush of cold air came in when the door opened. tree →
• She gushed about how wonderful the film was. tree →
• Tears gushed down his cheeks. tree →
• The river gushes over the rocks after rain. tree →
• The violets gushed up along the wayside. tree →

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.
• They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.
• He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gush» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.