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Lush

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Noun

1. alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse

a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

Adjective

2. exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous

produced or growing in extreme abundance

Example Sentences:
'their riotous blooming'

3. lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy

characterized by extravagance and profusion

Example Sentences:
'a lavish buffet'
'a lucullan feast'

4. lush, succulent

full of juice

Example Sentences:
'lush fruits'
'succulent roast beef'
'succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lush

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adjective
1. 
(of vegetation) abounding in lavish growth
2. 
(esp of fruits) succulent and fleshy
3. 
luxurious, elaborate, or opulent
4. slang
very attractive or pleasing
noun
1. 
a heavy drinker, esp an alcoholic
2. 
alcoholic drink
verb
3. US and Canadian
to drink (alcohol) to excess

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Lush

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adjective
1. 
tender and full of juice
2. 
of luxuriant growth
lush vegetation
3. 
characterized by a rich growth of vegetation
lush fields
4. 
characterized by richness, abundance, or extravagance, as in ornamentation, invention, etc., often tending to excess
lush writing
noun
1.  Slang, Obsolete
alcoholic liquor
2.  Slang
a person who drinks liquor habitually and to excess; esp., an alcoholic
verb intransitive, verb transitive
3.  Slang
to drink (liquor)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lush

see synonyms of lush
adj. lush·er, lush·est
1.
a. Having or characterized by luxuriant vegetation: a lush valley.
b. Abundant; plentiful. See Synonyms at profuse.
2.
a. Extravagant or luxurious, as in ornamentation: the lush decor of a grand hotel.
b. Extremely pleasing to the senses: a lush scent; lush fruit; the lush sounds of an orchestra.
c. Voluptuous or sensual: "[His]eyes swept over her lush young body until she was all the way out the door" (Clark Howard).
n.
A drunkard.
tr.v. lushed, lush·ing, lush·es
To cause to get drunk.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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