Definitions for gushes

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Spelling: [guhsh]

IPA: /gʌʃ/

Gushes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in gushes (eghssu).

Definitions for gushes

noun

1. a sudden, copious outflow of a fluid.
2. the fluid emitted.
3. effusive and often insincere language or behavior.

verb (used with object)

1. to emit suddenly, forcibly, or copiously.

verb (used without object)

1. to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement:
2. to express oneself extravagantly or emotionally; talk effusively:
3. to have a sudden, copious flow, as of blood or tears.

Origin of gushes

1350-1400; Middle English; probably phonesthemic in orig.; see gust¹, rush¹

Examples for gushes

Ask most designers for their mentors and out will gush a waterfall of names.

Catherine bowed her head, and with a gush of tears fell into his arms.

In a nation of couch potatoes, advertisers know the value of flogging their brands when the orchestra starts to gush.

A gush of smoke came from a chimney in the rear of the edifice.

Not even yet can I think without a gush of anger and shame of my visit to Brotherton.

That is an estimated 125,000 settlers, some 30,000 homes—15 times the withdrawal (if not to say uprooting) from gush Katif.

Viewers of a 2011 60 Minutes segment saw Amaitis gush about his relationship with legendary sports bettor Billy Walters.

"Oh, we haven't hurried," she said with a gush of gratification that startled the man.

In a gush of pro-America, anti–Soviet Union glory, the fourth installment in the Rocky saga pulls out all the stops.

It was as though that tree were Billy—struck by a gush of flying fire.