Word Finder - rushing

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To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.

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rush one's dinner;   rush off an email response

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To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.

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armies rush to battle;   waters rush down a precipice.

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To dribble rapidly.

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(contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.

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To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

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Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.

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To make a swift or sudden attack.

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To swiftly attack without warning.

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To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

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(college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.

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To transport or carry quickly.

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The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.

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To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

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To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

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A rapid surging motion.

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Rapidly flowing or surging.

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Full of activity, busy.

The last thing she remembered was the wet ground rushing toward her face.

I've got a deuce of a lot of rushing about to do yet.

The sound of the water rushing over rocks and the coolness of the water lifted her spirits.

The sound of waves rushing the shore and the firm sand beneath his feet indicated its location a few yards from them.

A column rushing forward with charged bayonets almost seemed to reach the enemy's ramparts, but then to melt away.

It seemed as if it were some living thing rushing on to some terrible fate.

I got to a point where my comrades and I were holed up in a warehouse and needed to defend a tank from the rushing Germans for 10 minutes.

The simulated game featured a strong defensive efford from the Steelers that resulted in four quarterback sacks (look out, Matt Hasselbeck) and limited one of the Seahawks' top runners to just 70 yards rushing.

Rushing at any point can cause mistakes that can't be fixed.

If a teacher is rushing too many children through, consider selecting a program able to spend the time necessary for proper dance training.

In today's society, we're accustomed to rushing from one activity to the next.

They can also transform this perfectionist tendency into rescuing behavior, agonizing over the problems of others and rushing to take over and solve everything without letting others help themselves.

Steep mountainsides near rushing rivers and streams are also a clashing of yin energies.

Some people prefer the sound of rushing water, while others prefer the sound of gentle rain or a bubbling brook.

Ever since designers began creating their fashions smaller, tighter, and more skin revealing, women have been rushing to day spas and beauty salons to remove their unwanted body hair.

Before rushing out at the last minute to purchase a Christmas gift, take the time to choose one the recipient is sure to enjoy.

When a couple rushes to the altar, chances are good that they'll be rushing to divorce court, too.

If that happens to coincide with Valentine's Day, so much the better, but rushing or delaying a marriage proposal in order to utilize a holiday can taint the intentions behind the question.

The name of this clutch really belies its beauty; here is the type of bag you'd expect to see under the arm of some up-and-coming model as she careens through the streets of New York, rushing to make her photo shoots.

Both partners are on the same page when it comes to not rushing into the big reveal of how they feel about the other.

Known as the Water Works, it is comprised of child-sized water tables complete with rushing rivers, waterfalls, pipes, umbrellas, pumps, and multiple tools to make the water move and go.

With families rushing in a hundred different directions every day, it's good to get in the habit of being organized.

You're rushing to get in the door just in time to collapse on the couch and watch your favorite program.

How about a fairy rushing toward a full moon on a trail of starry fairy dust?

Before rushing to surgery, I took a month to explore healing my body.

If too many thoughts are rushing through their brain, standing in Mountain while taking deep breaths will help them regain composure.

Sometimes, when the adrenaline is rushing, bases throw a little harder, and the tendency is for the flyer to go back beyond the reach of the spotters.

This is supposed to prevent you from rushing the movement.

Whether it's a bird chirping or a train rushing by, these realistic sound effects are readily available for download on the Internet.

When a popular Idol contestant makes a big splash and fans react by rushing to download his or her tunes, these folks get a nice little boost when they see how people are responding to them.

If you need any party supplies, such as birthday hats, decorations, balloons, or plastic tableware, be sure to purchase these items in advance to prevent rushing around the day of the party.

You will see the brides on the show rushing around, yelling at people, and trying to get their way 100% of the time.

The series final scenes showed them rushing headlong into the conflict.

If you've never seen Firefly, watch this movie and you'll be rushing out to buy or rent the series on DVD.

Rushing through the morning chores, she showered and dressed.

Below this the watershed of the Apennines is too near to the sea on that side to allow the formation of any large streams. Hence the rivers that flow in the opposite direction into the Adriatic and the Gulf of Taranto have much longer courses, though all partake of the character of mountain torrents, rushing down with great violence in winter and after storms, but dwindling in the summer into scanty streams, which hold a winding and sluggish course through the great plains of Apulia.

The French troops in Ste Marie were only an outpost of the 6th corps, and seeing themselves outnumbered, they withdrew about 2.30, the Prussians rushing the village immediately afterwards.

It was chiefly the mineral wealth of the Cordilleran region, first developed on the far Pacific slope, and later in many parts of the inner mountain ranges, that urged pioneers across the dry plains into the apparently inhospitable mountain region; there the adventurous new-corners rapidly worked out one mining district after another, exhausting and abandoning the smaller camps to early decay and rushing in feverish excitement to new-found river fields, but establishing important centres of varied industries in the more important mining districts.

Having released John Ball from his prison at Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself.

Here they received without shrinking a volley, which was certain to destroy a number of them, and then rushing forward in close order, fought their enemies hand to hand.

Interpenetrating this descending column of solid ore, limestone and coke, there is an upward rushing column of hot gases, the atmospheric nitrogen of the blast from the tuyeres, and the FIG.

Electric furnaces are at an advantage over others as regards the removal of sulphur and of iron oxide from the molten steel, because their atmosphere is free from the sulphur always present in the flame of coal-fired furnaces, and almost free from oxygen, because this element is quickly absorbed by the carbon and silicon of the steel, and in the case of arc furnaces by the carbon of the electrodes themselves, and is replaced only very slowly by leakage, whereas through the Bessemer converter and the open-hearth furnace a torrent of air is always rushing.

The temperature of the pass in summer is very high, whereas in winter, near its head, the cold is extreme, and the ice-cold wind rushing down the narrow outlet becomes destructive to life.

In 1895 he defended the workers' right to strike, but in 1903, as head of the Government (1901-5), he crushed a railway strike by rushing a bill through Parliament making illegal a stoppage of work by those engaged in the public and semi-public services.

The drainage has therefore to make its way across India to the eastwards, now turning sharply round projecting ranges, now tumbling down ravines, or rushing along the valleys, until the rain which the Bombay sea-breeze has dropped upon the Western Ghats finally falls into the Bay of Bengal.

He determined this time to carry out his old plan of searching for a passage up Davis's "overf all" - so-called in allusion to the overfall of the tide which Davis had observed rushing through the strait.

The different parts of the wing, moreover, travel at different degrees of velocity - the tip and posterior margin of the wing always rushing through a much greater space, in a given time, than the root and anterior margin.

The shoot is placed in the upper mouthpiece, and the stop or door, which retains the coal in the chamber, is released; the coal is then discharged into the retort, and rushing down the incline, is arrested by the barrier, and banks up, forming a continuous backing to the coal following.

They are variously explained by a fancied resemblance to the shapes of clouds, or as spirits of the rushing mountain torrents or winds.

If anything, winter biking was more pleasant without playing dodge ball with rushing tourists and campers along the summer-busy, shoulder-less highway.