rushing 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.