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lush
1[ luhsh ]
lush
1/ lʌʃ /
noun
- a heavy drinker, esp an alcoholic
- alcoholic drink
verb
- to drink (alcohol) to excess
lush
2/ lʌʃ /
adjective
- (of vegetation) abounding in lavish growth
- (esp of fruits) succulent and fleshy
- luxurious, elaborate, or opulent
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Derived Forms
- ˈlushly, adverb
- ˈlushness, noun
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Other Words From
- lushly adverb
- lushness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lush1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The forests were lush and filled with life, from giant snakes to monkeys.
The sounds are less mechanical and more lush, more concert hall than dance floor.
From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him.
But most of her interpretative choices are sound, even on a song with challenging psychological depths such as “Lush Life.”
Some day we will have a proper book on Tove Jansson the fine artist, with lush reproductions of her work.
He seemed to recall a state of lush, sybaritic softness, in pre-silicate times.
Down through the lush vegetation, the cylinder felt its way, dropping very slowly.
They would sit down in the lush grass of a shady green lane, close to a pool where the bull-frogs croaked.
The grass grows lush in the meadows and tangles in the hills that almost surround it.
Several times I saw him coming up whistling softly with a lush air of subdued and happy reminiscence.
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