effused

verb

past tense of effuse
as in drooled
to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm pundits who should have known better effused endlessly about this idealistic but naive senator

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effused
  1. drooled
  2. raved
  3. gushed
  4. enthused
  5. rhapsodized
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  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026
Definition of drooled
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  • After Jagger's video went viral, fans raved over the octogenarian's skills in the comments section of his post.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Coaches and teammates have raved this month about the fact that Mahomes looks, well, like Mahomes.
    — Sam McDowell August 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of raved
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  • Newlywed Travis Kelce gushed about his Madison Square Garden wedding to Taylor Swift while gearing up for his 14th season in the NFL.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • This past March, McGraw’s daughter Audrey performed at Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas and gushed about how much her parents mean to her, just hours after her dad was named a 2026 inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of gushed
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  • In an exclusive interview with WWD, the businessman enthused about the future of the Italian e-tailer and its current CEO.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Shortly after the nurses’ strike, the CEO of the NYC Health and Hospitals, the largest city healthcare system in the US, openly enthused about replacing radiologists with AI.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026
Definition of enthused
Verb
  • At the National Governors Association meeting in Colorado Springs last July, the investor Mark Cuban rhapsodized about the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
  • In the New Yorker, the writer Lawrence Weschler rhapsodized about the soft glow in the air here, day and night.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Definition of rhapsodized
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