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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