Synonyms for rushing


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ruhsh-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌʃ ɪŋ

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Définition of rushing

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).
  • adj hurrying
  • adj moving with great speed
Example sentences :
  • Hardy could scarcely refrain from rushing out to look around.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • A moment more and we are in the midst of the eddying, rushing, foaming rapids.
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • In rushing from Lauzanne's stall Allis had left the door swinging on its hinges.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • But, as she was rushing towards the girl, Vaughan held her back.
  • Extract from : « Sylph Etherege » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • By and by, the rushing noise began to sound like articulate language.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • As he gazes on the rushing flood he thinks of the waste of raw material.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 » by Various
  • A colossal and formless something was rushing across the field of his vision.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Of all these men and the rushing world of power they lived in, I have only a jumble of memories now.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • They were rushing for the flag station, gesticulating as they came.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • And I was rushing off to fetch it, but he laughingly laid his hand upon my arm.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

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