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Rushing

noun

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

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

Rush

verb

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

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"

Attack suddenly.

Urge to an unnatural speed. Synonym: hurry.

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

Run with the ball, in football.

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

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

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"Rushing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Death of the Virgin. Fourteen figures, among which are four females lamenting, and St. John bearing the palm. The attitude and expression of Mary, composed in death, are very fine; and Christ, instead of standing, as usual, by the couch, with her parting soul in his arms, comes rushing down from above with arms outspread ...

— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson

... who would die for him any hour—I must stand with my eyes open, but my hands bound, and see him rushing headlong into flames tenfold hotter than fire; see him on the brink of earthly and eternal ruin, and can't reach out my hand to hold him back. My boy! My own! Is it right? Is ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... said Mrs. Grayson softly. They both sat silent, looking into the fire. Through the open door, the hens could be heard pecking and clucking in the yard, and the rushing of a beck swollen by the rain, on the fell-side. Presently the farmer's ...

— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... was rushing through the drawing-room. At the French windows she caught sight of him, walking up and down in his usual quick, alert manner, now smelling flowers, now staring up into the trees, now scrutinizing the upper windows of the house. She drew back, waited until she had got her breath and ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

... the veranda of the hotel, reading a letter her husband had handed her at the tea-table, when Violet came rushing toward ...

— Elsie's children • Martha Finley

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