Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gush

(gushes, gushing, gushed) 1. When liquid gushes out of something, or when something gushes a liquid, the liquid flows out very quickly and in large quantities. Piping-hot water gushed out... A supertanker continues to gush oil off the coast of Spain. VERB: V adv/prep, V n 2. A gush of liquid is a sudden, rapid flow of liquid, or a quantity of it that suddenly flows out. I heard a gush of water. N-SING: usu N of n 3. If someone gushes, they express their admiration or pleasure in an exaggerated way. ‘Oh, it was brilliant,’ he gushes... He gushed about his love for his wife. VERB: V with quote, V prep • gushing He delivered a gushing speech. ADJ