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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : ruhsh
Phonetic Transcription : rʌʃ



Definition of rush

Origin :
  • mid-14c. (implied in rushing), "to drive back or down," from Anglo-French russher, from Old French ruser "to dodge, repel" (see ruse). Meaning "to do something quickly" is from 1650s; transitive sense of "to hurry up (someone or something)" is from 1850. U.S. Football sense originally was in rugby (1857).
  • Fraternity/sorority sense is from 1896 (originally it was what the fraternity did to the student); from 1899 as a noun in this sense. Earlier it was a name on U.S. campuses for various tests of strength or athletic skill between freshmen and sophomores as classes (1860).
  • noun hurry, speed
  • noun attack
  • verb hurry, speed
  • verb charge, attack
Example sentences :
  • She had feared he might rush his proposal through that night; he had been so much in earnest.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • There was a rush and faint roar of the flame up the chimney as the cardboard burned.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • You'd go out, when I was sound asleep, and tell them when they could rush me.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • From morning until night, rush'd down the clanking guillotine.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Once there was a waver in the line, such as precedes a rush.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • A rush of new strength and courage went from heart to brain.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • A rush of joy thrilled through George as he heard the words.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • His faith in himself was coming back—not strongly, with a rush, but with all humility.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • One felt tempted to brace oneself for the rush that was to come.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

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