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Rush   /rəʃ/   Listen
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



... in unison, as the boys crowded to the side over which the bully had pitched when Frank avoided his forward rush. ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy

... of champagne corks, and the clink of abundant silver, and tuning of instruments by the band, and he saw the flash of lights, and the dash of serving-men, and the rush of hot hospitality; and although he had not enough true fibre in his stomach to yearn for a taste of the good things going round, there can be little doubt, from what he did thereafter, that his gastric juices must have ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... lasted for what seemed interminable minutes and left their senses dazed, and the earth rocking beneath their feet. Again came the blinding light, and again the thunder crashed. Then, in a moment, panic had set in, and the tattered blanket had fallen behind the last man as a rush was made for the doubtful shelter of ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... and drive of that rush, to have held an oar in the boat during that and to have shared with the men in the confidence they gathered—ours was a skipper to steer a boat around a school—and the soul that rang in Clancy's voice!—why, just to stand on deck, as I did, and ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

... infidelity against the authority of his instructers, and the bewitching delusions of their theories. You see that I estimate justly that portion of instruction, which our medical students derive from your labors; and, associating with it one of the chairs which my old and able friend, Doctor Rush, so honorably fills, I consider them as the two fundamental pillars of the edifice. Indeed, I have such an opinion of the talents of the professors in the other branches which constitute the school of ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson


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