MEANING
1. Flow out quickly and in a large amount.
2. Speak with excessive or unrestrained enthusiasm.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- water gushes
- gush from a spring
On the page
Water gushed through the broken gate.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- gush
- Past tense
- gushed
- Past participle
- gushed
- Present participle
- gushing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- gush
- Present continuous
- am/is/are gushing
- Present perfect
- have/has gushed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been gushing
- Past
- gushed
- Past continuous
- was/were gushing
- Past perfect
- had gushed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been gushing
- Future
- will gush
- Future continuous
- will be gushing
- Future perfect
- will have gushed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been gushing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: gush; gushes; gushed; gushed; gushing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: gushes.
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