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Rushing   /rˈəʃɪŋ/   Listen
Rushing

noun
1.
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line.  Synonym: rush.
2.
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner.  Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush.



Rush

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.



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"Rushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Instead of rushing wildly from side to side according to custom, she advanced timidly, absorbed in deep memory; at every glance her face expressed a recollection; she seemed to alternate between a vague dread and an unconquerable ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... understand the agonies of such moments—of such moments as regards traveling in general; but none who have not been at Cairo can understand the extreme agony produced by the threat of a prolonged sojourn in that city. At last we were out of the house, rushing through the mud, slush, and half-melted snow, along the wooden track to the railway, laden with bags and coats, and deafened by that melancholy, wailing sound, as though of a huge polar she- bear in the pangs of travail upon an iceberg, which proceeds from an American railway-engine ...
— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

... liked me and were my friend," she said, "not only wouldn't you wish to go away and leave me, but you would want me to have the money, instead of rushing all over the world in order to give it to some tiresome young man you'd never heard of ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

... scent of coffee met his hungry sense and made him really think he was taking the savory black draught from his familiar tin cup; but the muddy streets, the blinding lights, the cruel, rushing people, were still there. The buildings, however, now became different. They were lower and meaner, with dirty windows. Women laughing loudly crowded about the doors, and the establishments seemed to be equally divided between saloon-keepers, pawnbrokers, ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... feast, and singing preferred their petitions, Till the Day-Spirit[70] rose in the East— in the red, rosy robes of the morning, To sail o'er the sea of the skies, to his lodge in the land of the shadows, Where the black-winged tornadoes[H] arise, rushing loud from the mouths of their caverns. And here with a shudder they heard, flying far from his tee in the mountains, Wa-kin-yan,[32] the huge Thunder-Bird, with the arrows ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon


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