rush Definition

rush¹
verb rushed, rushing

intr
1. To hurry; to move forward or go quickly.

Thesaurus: hurry, hasten, speed, race, hustle, hightail (US), scurry, shoot, storm, tear, fly, press, stampede.
2. To hurry someone or something forward; to make them go quickly.
3. To send, transport, etc someone or something quickly and urgently.

Example: rushed her to hospital
4. To perform or deal with something too quickly or hurriedly.
intr
5. To come, flow, spread, etc quickly and suddenly.

Example: colour rushed to her cheeks
6. To attack someone or something suddenly.
7. To begin or enter into a course of action, an agreement, etc too hastily and often without giving it enough consideration.

Form: rush into something (usually)
8. To force someone to act or do something more quickly than they want to.

Example: don't rush me
9. slang
To cheat someone by charging them an excessive amount for something.

noun rushes

1. A sudden quick movement, especially forwards.
2. A sudden general movement or migration of people, usually towards a single goal.

Example: a gold rush
3. A sound or sensation of rushing.
4. Haste; hurry.

Example: be in a dreadful rush
Thesaurus: urgency, swiftness.
5. A period of great activity.
6. A sudden demand for a commodity.
7. slang
A feeling of euphoria after taking a drug.
8. rugby.Amer football.
An attempt to force the ball through a line of defenders.
(Austral)
9. A stampede.

adj

1. Done, or needing to be done, quickly.

Example: a rush job
Thesaurus: prompt, swift, rapid, expeditious, urgent, emergency, hurried, hasty, cursory, careless, superficial.

Idiom: be rushed off one's feet

To be frantically busy.

Idiom: rush one's fences

To act too hastily.

Etymology: 14c: from French ruser to put to flight, from Latin recusare to push back.

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rush²
noun rushes

1. bot.
A densely tufted annual or evergreen perennial plant, typically found in cold wet regions of the northern hemisphere, usually on moors or marshy ground.
2. A stalk or stalklike leaf of this plant, often used as a material for making baskets, covering floors, etc.
3. loosely
Any of various plants more or less similar to rush (sense 1).
4. colloq old use
Something of very little value or importance.
Form: not care or be worth a rush (especially)

Derivative: rushy
adj

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon risc.