GUSHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gushing mean? 

• GUSHING (adjective)
  The adjective GUSHING has 3 senses:

1. flowing profusely

2. uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm

3. extravagantly demonstrative

  Familiarity information: GUSHING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUSHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowing profusely

Synonyms:

gushing; pouring

Context example:

pouring flood waters

Similar:

running ((of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm

Synonyms:

burbling; burbly; effusive; gushing

Context example:

a novel told in burbly panting tones

Similar:

lively (full of life and energy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Extravagantly demonstrative

Synonyms:

effusive; gushing; gushy

Context example:

write unrestrained and gushy poetry

Similar:

demonstrative (given to or marked by the open expression of emotion)

 Context examples 

But his head was whirling round, the blood was gushing from his brow, his temple, his mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It has been my lot,” he observed, “to meet, in the diversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis, but never with one so green, so gushing, as the present!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But a fountain of blood was gushing forth.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It may be the result of an active galactic nucleus, where energy is gushing from a supermassive black hole.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Jo said this with such a droll imitation of May Chester's gushing style that Amy got out of the room as rapidly as possible, feeling a strong desire to laugh and cry at the same time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even as he spoke, however, his head swirled round, and he fell to the deck with the blood gushing from his nose and mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the fatal blow never fell, for even as his arm quivered before descending, the Spaniard gave a shudder, and stiffening himself rolled heavily over upon his side, with the blood gushing from his armpit and from the slit of his vizor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)