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Rush

noun

1.

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner. Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing.

2.

A sudden forceful flow. Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge.

3.

Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems.

4.

Physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813). Synonym: Benjamin Rush.

5.

The swift release of a store of affective force. Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill. "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"

6.

A sudden burst of activity.

7.

(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line. Synonym: rushing.

verb

(past & past part. rushed; pres. part. rushing)

1.

Move fast. Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it. "The cars raced down the street"

2.

Attack suddenly.

3.

Urge to an unnatural speed. Synonym: hurry.

4.

Act or move at high speed. Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp. "Hurry--it's late!"

5.

Run with the ball, in football.

6.

Cause to move fast or to rush or race. Synonym: race.

7.

Cause to occur rapidly. Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate.

adjective

1.

Not accepting reservations. Synonym: first-come-first-serve.

2.

Done under pressure. Synonym: rushed.

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"Rush" Quotes from Famous Books

... Honours, the saddest News—an Ambush being laid for Bacon, they rush'd out upon him on the Sevana, and after some fighting took him ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... like the blackbird's shriek, and his rush From the turnips as I pass by, And the partridge hiding her head in a bush, For her young ones ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... approaching the cell in which they had been placed. At last there was a perfectly appreciable sound. It was a fumbling, as of some one in the darkness, making hasty efforts to get a key in a lock. Carter, now bent on discovery, made a rush into the abysmal darkness. He ...

— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton

... rush and a din of shouting beside her and ahead, as the frightened merchants scurried to pull down their awnings before the ruthless horse-men could ride down on them; the narrow street transformed itself almost on the instant into a undraped, ...

— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy

... spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush of creation! Come, life! surge through this mass of mortifica- tion! Come, sweep away these exquisite, ghastly first- flowers, which are rather last-flowers! Come, thaw down their cool portentousness, dissolve them: snowdrops, straight, death-veined exhalations of white and ...

— Look! We Have Come Through! • D. H. Lawrence

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