rush
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsċ (“quick, quick-witted, clever”), Old Frisian rosk, rosch (“quick, rapid, sudden”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English ruschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.
Inflected forms:
form: rushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden forward motion.
pos: noun
examples: A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
gloss: A surge.
pos: noun
examples: A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.
gloss: General haste.
pos: noun
examples: Many errors were made in the rush to finish.
Diane makes an announcement to the patient passengers on the quarter-full train. There is no sense of rush - time really does move more slowly in the Highlands. The passengers, nearly all tourists, don't seem in the slightest bothered.
gloss: A rapid, noisy flow.
pos: noun
examples: a rush of water; a rush of footsteps
gloss: A sudden attack; an onslaught.
pos: noun
gloss: The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
pos: noun
examples: a rush on the quarterback
gloss: A rusher; a lineman.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line
gloss: A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
pos: noun
examples: The rollercoaster gave me a rush.
She felt the familiar cocaine rush soon after injecting herself.
gloss: A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
pos: noun
examples: rush week
The trend burst through last week during sorority rush at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but it continues today in the form of parody videos, deep dives on the status of various recruits and rush videos from women at other colleges across the country who are just starting the process themselves.
[…]daily “OOTDs” (outfits of the day), rush recap videos from freshly tanned and coiffed prospective new members (PNMs), and reactions to 18-year-old girls either elated or devastated by the high-stakes game of likability that is rush.
gloss: A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
pos: noun
examples: At the end of rush, the fraternities vote on who they want to extend invitations to join, and the rushes can then make their selection from the bids they get. Some rushes get bids from multiple fraternities, while others do not get bids from any.
After a few rounds of these competitions, the rushes that survive to the end get a "bid." Again, kind of like an auction. They don’t come in nice envelopes like sororities, though. Usually what happens is that they put the rushes in a room individually and tell them they didn’t get the bid, to see how sad they get. If they get really sad, the fraternity brothers come to the room and congratulate them on being accepted to the fraternity. Then, the rushes become pledges.
gloss: A perfect recitation.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
gloss: A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
pos: noun
gloss: To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: rush one's dinner; rush off an email response
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
gloss: To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
[V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]
Like to an entred Tyde, they all ruſh by,[…]
A party of men[…] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
I remember the sudden drop in the note of the station bell, as we roar through, perhaps with 16 coaches; sweep up to milepost 9½, and then, with increasing thunder from the exhaust, fairly rush the fells at Milnthorpe at the foot of the climb to Grayrigg, until the steady thunderous beat re-echoes past Mosedale Hall, still at 40 m.p.h.
gloss: To dribble rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.
gloss: To make a swift or sudden attack.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To swiftly attack without warning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A detachment of cavalrymen rushed the enemy's position.
gloss: To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To transport or carry quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
gloss: To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
slang
gloss: To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a rush job
Synonyms: fly
scramble
get a move on
hasten
haul
hurtle
bustle
haul ass
haul one's ashes
hie
hump it
hurry
hustle
make haste
make tracks
move it
rattle one's hocks
rush
scream
shift
skedaddle
swap
speed
zip
zoom
Related words: quickly
reckless
speed up
speedy
Derived words: adrenaline rush
backrush
boss rush
bum rush
bum's rush
feudal rush
gold rush
goldrush
green rush
headrush
landrush
pass rush
rushaholic
rushbearer
rushbearing
rush defence
rushee
rush goalie
rush hour
rush job
rush of blood
rush of blood to the head
Rush River
RushTok
rushwork
sugar rush
inrush
onrush
outrush
uprush
rushy
bum-rush
downrush
rusher
rush in
rushing
rush off
rush out
rush to judgement
Translations:
lang: Russian
word: раш
roman: raš