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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

... retorted Arkwright. "You see, those admissions are limited—five hundred and five, I believe—and they're rush seats, at that. First come, first served; and if you're too late you aren't served at all. So the first arrival comes bright and early. I've heard that he has been known to come at peep of day when there's a Paderewski or a Melba for a drawing card. But ...

— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter

... reliable Indian estimated that there were over three hundred dogs. These canines have free run of the lodge, and at night they crawl in under the edge of the canvas and sleep by their Indian master. Let an intruder enter the camp during the hours of darkness and they rush out simultaneously, howling like a pack of wolves until one might think the bowels of the earth had given forth an eruption of dogs. The Indian warrior makes a companion of his dog, and he can show no greater hospitality to a guest than to kill his favourite friend ...

— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon

... an opportunity of seeing something of the fish of these regions. A net, as we passed near the beach, was being drawn on to it. There was a shout, and a rush towards it. A huge monster of a ray, with the sharpest of stings, was seen floundering amid a number of other creatures, the most numerous being hammer-headed dog-fish, which were quickly knocked ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... bore down on us with a rush, cutting through the water and sending spray flying on either side of the bow. The dory was forgotten as we watched this new enemy. There was no one to be seen on board,—the spread of ...

— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson

... flooding of light into the place and the rush of hobnailed shoes on the stairs recalled ...

— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock

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