rush
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(verb) urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!" |
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Synonyms: hurry |
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Antonyms: delay |
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(verb) act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!" |
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Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp |
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Related Words: act, move |
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(noun) (football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush" |
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Synonyms: rushing |
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Related Words: run, running, running game, running play |
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(verb) attack suddenly |
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Related Words: assail, assault, attack, bear down, charge, set on |
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(satellite adjective) done under pressure; "a rush job" |
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Synonyms: rushed |
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(verb) step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" |
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Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed |
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Related Words: barge, buck, charge, dart, dash, flash, go, locomote, move, push forward, scoot, scud, shoot, shoot down, tear, thrust ahead, travel |
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Antonyms: linger |
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(verb) run with the ball, in football |
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Related Words: run |
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(noun) a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"; "he joined the gold rush" |
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Related Words: burst, flare-up, outburst |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow |
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Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
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Related Words: flow, flowing, onrush |
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(noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
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Related Words: Juncus articulatus, Juncus bufonius, Juncus effusus, Juncus inflexus, Juncus leseurii, Juncus tenuis, bog plant, bullrush, bulrush, common rush, hard rush, jointed rush, marsh plant, salt rush, slender rush, soft rush, swamp plant, toad rush |
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(verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze" |
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Synonyms: race |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(satellite adjective) not accepting reservations |
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Synonyms: first-come-first-serve |
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(noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" |
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Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
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Related Words: bolt, dash, motion, move, movement, scamper, scramble, scurry |
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(verb) of bodily processes such as fever, illness, etc. |
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Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
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Related Words: bring about, effect, effectuate, set up |
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(noun) the release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks" |
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Synonyms: bang, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
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Related Words: excitement, exhilaration |
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