Synonyms for rushes
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : ruhsh |
| Phonetic Transcription : rʌʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for rushes Other synonyms for the word rushes
- 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 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
- 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
Antonyms for rushes
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