gush
verb (used without object)
to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement.
outgush
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a word derived from
gush.
Example Sentences
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I felt an outgush of warm air and heard country music from a radio when she opened.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Mars had played the game of the cuttlefish, which when pursued by its enemies darkens the water behind it by a sudden outgush of inky fluid and thus escapes the eye of its foe.
From Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss
Well, old fellow," said Septimius, with more cordiality and outgush of heart than he had felt for a long while, "there is no man whom I should be happier to call brother.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Her every word and thought was an outgush of purest emotion.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
The woman sprang toward him with both hands extended; but he stepped back, and she clasped them in an outgush of joy.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
