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What does effusive mean?

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Adjective
  1. gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression)
  2. (archaic) pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing
  3. (of igneous rock) extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava
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One project Middlebrook cites as directly benefiting from the reorg is the Presidents Day event about which Meyers is so effusive.
The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices.
His colleagues were equally effusive with their sympathies and unanimous in the thinking that his condition might be stress-related.
Despite the grumblings of everyone's stomachs, several minutes were then spent in effusive praise for the number of dishes.
Every pro in attendance who analyzed the contest heaped effusive praise on the judges afterward.
The florid old actor-manager at the heart of Forkbeard Fantasy's Shooting Shakespeare is effusive in his bardolatry.

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