verb
- Gush forth in a sudden stream or jet.
- usage: "water gushed forth"
- Praise enthusiastically.
- usage: "She raved about that new restaurant"
- Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth.
- usage: "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"
adjective
- Flowing profusely.
- usage: "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters"
- synonyms: pouring
- Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm.
- usage: "a novel told in burbly panting tones"
- Extravagantly demonstrative.
- usage: "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
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