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RUSHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
Example:
in his haste to leave he forgot his book
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rushing" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rushing"):
bolt; dash (the act of moving with great haste)
scamper; scramble; scurry (rushing about hastily in an undignified way)
Derivation:
rush (act or move at high speed)
rush (move hurridly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
Example:
the linebackers were ready to stop a rush
Synonyms:
rush; rushing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rushing" is a kind of...):
run; running; running game; running play ((American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Derivation:
rush (run with the ball, in football)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rush
Context examples:
But when she had reached the middle, and heard the water rushing beneath her, she was after all, afraid, and stood still, and ventured no farther.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The Yeehats were dancing about the wreckage of the spruce-bough lodge when they heard a fearful roaring and saw rushing upon them an animal the like of which they had never seen before.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Everybody heard it and knew; and Cheese-Face knew, rushing like a tiger in the other's extremity and raining blow on blow.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Well, I like that! Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?" cried John, rushing to the larder.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And when the great Ivan fell across his legs, hurled there lifeless and crushed by a down-rushing rock, he remembered the blind eyes of Old Kinoos and was glad.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I began, by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about, came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He led at Berks’s head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return, which left the imprint of four angry knuckles above his ribs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was interrupted by a fine tall boy of eleven years old, who, rushing out of the house, pushed the maid aside, and while William was opening the chaise-door himself, called out, You are just in time.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
