Verb pundits who should have known better effused endlessly about this idealistic but naive senator
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In the weeks before the appearance of those lava-effusing fissures on its eastern flanks, the volcano had been inflating. Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020 The Eritrean leader also effused about the new era of friendly relations between the two countries. Elias Meseret, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2018 Senate President Peter Courtney, a Democrat, also effused about lawmakers' productivity. Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 3 Mar. 2018 In the days after Silvers’s death, dozens of writers effused on the magazine’s website and elsewhere. John Williams, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017 And Wenger effused over Sanchez's second-half display, while complimenting the impact of Kolasinac after the break.SI.com, 15 Sep. 2017
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borrowed from Latin effūsus, past participle of effundere "to pour out, discharge, expend," from ef-ex- entry 1 + fundere "to pour, shed" — more at found entry 5