lush up

English

Verb

lush up (third-person singular simple present lushes up, present participle lushing up, simple past and past participle lushed up)

  1. (rare) To make lush
    • 1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday, page 45:
      Warm rain and a south-west wind, lushing up the young grass in his meadows, and breathing gently upon the pear and the plum blossom!
    • 2009 July 21, Eileen Morgan, “unbelievable”, in rec.equestrian‎[1] (Usenet):
      I had one boarder who's [sic] horse got a gas colic after a rain that lushed up the pasture he had been on for months.
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