Events

Synonyms for gush

The synonym for gush recorded in this bank is flush, in the sense "a sudden rapid flow (as of water)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for gush

flushnoun, in the sense "a sudden rapid flow (as of water)"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day gush is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampEvents

a sudden rapid flow (as of water)

There was a little gush of blood.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

flush

Same sentence, swapped: There was a little flush of blood.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where gush turns up in the game

gush is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where gush is the trap

trickleverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dribble, in the sense "to flow slowly in a thin stream", so gush is there to be ruled out.

Play gush

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gush reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

gush is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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