gush

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gush1 /ɡʌʃ/ verb

a) [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]MILIQUID if a liquid gushes, it flows or pours out quickly and in large quantities 〔液体〕大量涌出，喷出 SYN spurt

gush out/from/down etc

Water gushed from the broken pipe.

水从破裂的管子中喷涌而出。

He opened the door and smoke gushed out.

他打开门，烟喷涌而出。

b) [transitiveT] if something gushes a liquid, the liquid pours out quickly and in large quantities 涌出，喷出〔大量液体〕 SYN spurt

The wound gushed blood.

伤口大量出血。

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]PRETEND to express your praise, pleasure etc in a way that other people think is too strong 吹捧；夸张地表达

‘I simply loved your book, ’ she gushed.

“我真是喜欢你的书。”她吹捧道。

3 (also gush out) [intransitiveI]EMOTIONAL if words or emotions gush out, you suddenly express them very strongly 〔话语〕迸出；〔感情〕迸发

All that pent-up frustration gushed out in a torrent of abuse.

所有压抑着的失望与不快通过一阵痛骂全都发泄了出来。

Examples from the Corpus

gush• "I just love your outfit, " she gushed.• Matters were complicated by Yorick's style: his consciousness did more than stream; it gushed.• His mouth flew open and out gushed a yellow liquid.• The knife wound was gushing blood.• A pipe burst in one of the apartments above, and water gushed down.• He grimaced, as hot tears gushed from his eyes.• Oil gushed from the hole in the ship's hull.• As a torrent gushed inside, it knocked out much of her electrical system.• Oil gushed out and swirled around his feet.• A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach.• When tapped, they can gush year round without a pump.

gush out/from/down etc• The spring that gushes from a cleft mountain is the Goddess's blood.• Oil gushed out and swirled around his feet.• A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach.• He grimaced, as hot tears gushed from his eyes.• A second after I gave him that answer, I felt a flood of hot, salty tears gush down my cheeks.• Blinding E.-like light gushes out of the first crack.• We redoubled our efforts to control the flood of water that gushes down our field from the mountains behind.

gush2 noun

1 LIQUID[countableC usually singular] a large quantity of something, usually a liquid, that suddenly pours out of something 涌流，喷出之物 SYN spurt

a gush of ice-cold water

一股冰冷的水

2. a gush of relief/self-pity etc EMOTIONALa sudden feeling or expression of emotion 一阵宽慰/自怜等

Examples from the Corpus

gush• This astonishing performance produced a gush of hyperbole.• With each wave a gush of water spurted up into your armpit and slopped into the cabin.• When he removed the thumb from his lips, Jackie half expected the puffiness to subside with a gush of escaping air.• It seemed as though a valve had burst inside her and a great gush of energy was being released.• Miss Bates's gush of volubility is at last deflected and the visit concluded.• There was a slight gush in her manner which gave the impression that she was the stupider of the two.• A sudden gush of liquid spurted out of the plant.• Maybe behind the gush there was something she wanted to say but wasn't brazen enough to bring out too openly.• Jack, the gush, was crying.

Origin gush1

(1300-1400) Probably from the sound

gush1 verbgush2 noun

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