Synonyms for rushing
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ruhsh-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌʃ ɪŋ |
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Définition of rushing
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).
- adj hurrying
- adj moving with great speed
- Hardy could scarcely refrain from rushing out to look around.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- A moment more and we are in the midst of the eddying, rushing, foaming rapids.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- In rushing from Lauzanne's stall Allis had left the door swinging on its hinges.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- But, as she was rushing towards the girl, Vaughan held her back.
- Extract from : « Sylph Etherege » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- By and by, the rushing noise began to sound like articulate language.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- As he gazes on the rushing flood he thinks of the waste of raw material.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 » by Various
- A colossal and formless something was rushing across the field of his vision.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Of all these men and the rushing world of power they lived in, I have only a jumble of memories now.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- They were rushing for the flag station, gesticulating as they came.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- And I was rushing off to fetch it, but he laughingly laid his hand upon my arm.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
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