Antonyms for rushes


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


Definition of rushes

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 :
  • The youth pondered, and drew a plan amongst the rushes with the point of his staff.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • She is about to offer him her cheek, then salutes instead, and rushes off, with Roger in pursuit.
  • Extract from : « Echoes of the War » by J. M. Barrie
  • At length, unable to endure it longer, he rushes out into the air.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • Each repels its like and rushes to the embrace of its opposite.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • There were no rushes to make water-wheels of, and no brooks to set them turning in.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Alvar rushes through the Moors and catches him in his arms.'
  • Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Of course every one rushes to the side to see the pilot come aboard.
  • Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
  • Set it near the fire till the curd comes; fill a vat made in the form of a brick, of wheat straw or rushes sewed together.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Ted Graham helped his wife out of the car, followed the Rushes to the door.
  • Extract from : « Old Rambling House » by Frank Patrick Herbert
  • In his haste the poor youth slipped in some grease that had clung to the rushes.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

Synonyms for rushes

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