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rush
1 [ruhsh]
,–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence. |
| 2. | to dash, esp. to dash forward for an attack or onslaught. |
| 3. | to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly: The blood rushed to his face. |
| 4. | Football. to carry the ball on a running play or plays. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence: They rushed the work to make the deadline. |
| 6. | to carry or convey with haste: to rush an injured person to the hospital. |
| 7. | to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry: He rushed his roommate to get to the party on time. |
| 8. | to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste: to rush a bill through Congress. |
| 9. | to attack suddenly and violently; charge. |
| 10. | to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.). |
| 11. | Informal. to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo: to rush an attractive newcomer. |
| 12. | to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership. |
| 13. | Football.
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–noun
| 14. | the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement. |
| 15. | a hostile attack. |
| 16. | an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, esp. because of a new mine: the gold rush to California. |
| 17. | a sudden appearance or access: a rush of tears. |
| 18. | hurried activity; busy haste: the rush of city life. |
| 19. | a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs: to be in a rush. |
| 20. | press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste. |
| 21. | Football.
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| 22. | a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges. |
| 23. | rushes, Movies. daily (def. 4). |
| 24. | Informal. a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor: He gave her a big rush. |
| 25. | the rushing by a fraternity or sorority. |
| 26. | Also called flash. Slang. the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug. |
–adjective
| 27. | requiring or done in haste: a rush order; rush work. |
| 28. | characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.: The cafeteria's rush period was from noon to two in the afternoon. |
| 29. | characterized by the rushing of potential new members by a sorority or fraternity: rush week on the university campus. |
Origin:
1325–75; (v.) ME ruschen < AF russher, russer, OF re(h)usser, re(h)user, ruser < LL recūsāre, to push back, L: to refuse. See recuse, ruse; (n.) ME rus(s)che, deriv. of the v.
1325–75; (v.) ME ruschen < AF russher, russer, OF re(h)usser, re(h)user, ruser < LL recūsāre, to push back, L: to refuse. See recuse, ruse; (n.) ME rus(s)che, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
rush⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. hasten, run. Rush, hurry, dash, speed imply swiftness of movement. Rush implies haste and sometimes violence in motion through some distance: to rush to the store. Hurry suggests a sense of strain or agitation, a breathless rushing to get to a definite place by a certain time: to hurry to an appointment. Dash implies impetuosity or spirited, swift movement for a short distance: to dash to the neighbor's. Speed means to go fast, usually by means of some type of transportation, and with some smoothness of motion: to speed to a nearby city.
1. hasten, run. Rush, hurry, dash, speed imply swiftness of movement. Rush implies haste and sometimes violence in motion through some distance: to rush to the store. Hurry suggests a sense of strain or agitation, a breathless rushing to get to a definite place by a certain time: to hurry to an appointment. Dash implies impetuosity or spirited, swift movement for a short distance: to dash to the neighbor's. Speed means to go fast, usually by means of some type of transportation, and with some smoothness of motion: to speed to a nearby city.
Antonyms:
18. sloth, lethargy.
18. sloth, lethargy.
rush
2 [ruhsh]
,–noun
| 1. | any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places. Compare rush family. |
| 2. | any plant of the rush family. |
| 3. | any of various similar plants. |
| 4. | a stem of such a plant, used for making chair bottoms, mats, baskets, etc. |
| 5. | something of little or no value; trifle: not worth a rush. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME rusch, risch, OE rysc, risc; c. D, obs. G Rusch
bef. 900; ME rusch, risch, OE rysc, risc; c. D, obs. G Rusch

Related forms:
rushlike, adjective
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Link To rushes
rush 1 (rŭsh) v. rushed, rush·ing, rush·es v. intr.
[Middle English rushen, from Anglo-Norman russher, variant of Old French ruser, to drive back, from Latin recūsāre, to reject : re-, re- + causārī, to give as a reason (from causa, cause).] rush'er n. |
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