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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" Antonym: linger.

2.

Attack suddenly.

3.

Urge to an unnatural speed. Synonym: hurry. Antonym: delay.

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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