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Synonyms for rushings

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

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Définition of rushings

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).
  • As in racing : noun competition
Example sentences :
  • There were rushings and spoutings in the air—for they were in the Norris Geyser Basin.
  • Extract from : « Yellowstone Nights » by Herbert Quick
  • We're going to have a peaceful time, quite independent of Simla rushings.
  • Extract from : « Far to Seek » by Maud Diver
  • There come shrill cries of many voices from behind, and rushings that pass by and vanish.
  • Extract from : « Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece » by John Addington Symonds
  • But a perfect uproar was taking place, wild cries, and rushings to and fro.
  • Extract from : « John Ames, Native Commissioner » by Bertram Mitford
  • Prodigious convulsion of production, the grinding of mighty forces, the noise and rushings of winds—and what avails?
  • Extract from : « Shandygaff » by Christopher Morley
  • The sea whispered round the island shores, but brought no news of the rushings to and fro of hostile fleets.
  • Extract from : « The Island Mystery » by George A. Birmingham
  • Instead there are endless writhings and rushings about, done with a deal of skill, but destructive of the last remnants of Ibsen.
  • Extract from : « The Art Of The Moving Picture » by Vachel Lindsay
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