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verb

Rush v. t.

To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error. (College Cant, U.S.)

Rush v. i. (past & past part. rushed; pres. part. rushing)

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. "Like to an entered tide, they all rush by."

To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation. "They... never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers."

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Etymology of 'Rushing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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