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gush

verbCommon GRE wordMore G words

to express enthusiasm in an effusive, exaggerated way

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Gush in a sentence

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Reviewers gushed over the debut novel, heaping it with extravagant praise and calling it a masterpiece.

Synonyms
effuseraveenthuse
Antonyms
understaterestrain
Common questions

Questions about “gush

Gush (verb) means to express enthusiasm in an effusive, exaggerated way
Here is gush used in an example sentence: "Reviewers gushed over the debut novel, heaping it with extravagant praise and calling it a masterpiece."
Common synonyms for gush include effuse, rave, enthuse.
Antonyms of gush include understate, restrain.
Gush is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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