Synonyms for rush
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : ruhsh |
| Phonetic Transcription : rʌʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for rush Other synonyms for the word rush
- accelerate
- capture
- career
- charge
- course
- dart
- dispatch
- expedite
- expedition
- fire up
- fleet
- fling
- flit
- flux
- get cracking
- get the lead out
- go like lightning
- haste
- hasten
- hastiness
- hotfoot
- hurriedness
- hurry up
- hustle
- lose no time
- make haste
- make short work of
- onslaught
- overcome
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- precipitation
- press
- push
- quicken
- race
- roll
- run
- scramble
- scud
- scurry
- shake a leg
- shoot
- speed up
- sprint
- step on gas
- storm
- streak
- stream
- surge
- swiftness
- take by storm
- tear
- urgency
- violence
- whiz
- zip
- zoom
Définition of rush
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
- She had feared he might rush his proposal through that night; he had been so much in earnest.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- There was a rush and faint roar of the flame up the chimney as the cardboard burned.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- You'd go out, when I was sound asleep, and tell them when they could rush me.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- From morning until night, rush'd down the clanking guillotine.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Once there was a waver in the line, such as precedes a rush.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- A rush of new strength and courage went from heart to brain.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- A rush of joy thrilled through George as he heard the words.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- His faith in himself was coming back—not strongly, with a rush, but with all humility.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- I am sick in my soul of narrow apartments and wheels and the rush and roar of the city.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- One felt tempted to brace oneself for the rush that was to come.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
Antonyms for rush
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