Rush

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English

Noun

Rush (plural rushes)
  1. Any of several stiff aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Juncus having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers.
  2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
  3. A sudden forward motion.
  4. A surge.
  5. General haste.
  6. A rapid, noisy flow.
  7. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
  8. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
  9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
  10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

Verb

Rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
  2. (intransitive) To flow rapidly or noisily.
  3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
  4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
  5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
  6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
  7. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
  8. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

Adjective

Rush (comparative more Rush, superlative most Rush)

  1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Proper noun

RUSH

  1. (computing) A dialect of the language PL/1.

Adjectives for Rush

headlong; swift; hectic; precipitate; despairing; violent; blowing; flying; impulsive; engulfing; shrieking; blossomy; trampling; sickening; steady; titanic; madder furious; pounding; rioting; never-ending nodding; tumultuous; veritable; memorable impetuous; recurrent; mighty; soft; chilly onward; slimy.

Verbs for Rush

attempt—; avert—; check—; control—; curb—; discharge—; foresee—; halt—; predict—; prophesy—; stem—; —abates; — carries along; —drives; —forces; —impels; —overcomes; —overwhelms; —severs; — strains; —surges; —swells; —sweeps; — traps.

Adverbs for Rush

tumultuously; deliberately; powerfully; in coherently; blindly; irrepressibly; unceremoniously; impetuously; violently; recklessly; madly; sickeningly;

Thesaurus

Thesaurus rush

Brownian movement, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, accelerate, ado, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aftergrass, aggravated assault, aggression, air speed, amphibious attack, angular motion, armed assault, ascending, ascent, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bagatelle, bamboo, bang, banzai attack, bauble, bean, belch, bibelot, bit, blackmail, blitz, blitzkrieg, boil, bolt, boot, brass farthing, break, breakthrough, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bustle, button, buzz about, call, call for, cane, canter, career, cascade, celerity, cent, cereal, cereal plant, charge, chase, claim, climbing, commotion, concourse, confluence, conflux, contribution, corn, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, course, crippling attack, crosscurrent, crowd, curio, current, dart, dash, dash at, dash off, dash on, dead run, dead set at, debouchment, defluxion, demand, demand for, descending, descent, descent on, dispatch, dissiliency, diversion, diversionary attack, dogtrot, double-time, downflow, downpour, downward motion, draft, drain, drift, driftage, drive, drive on, duty, ebb, ebbing, emergency, eructation, eruption, exaction, excitement, exigent, expedite, expedition, extortion, extortionate demand, farce, farinaceous plant, farthing, fastness, feather, ferment, festinate, fig, flank attack, flank speed, flare-up, flat-out speed, fleabite, fleet, flight, fling, flit, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flowing, fluency, flurry, flush, flutter, flux, fly, fly at, fog, folderol, font, forage grass, forced draft, forward, forward motion, forwardness, fount, fountain, fribble, frippery, frontal attack, full gallop, fuss, gallop, gas attack, gaud, get cracking, get going, get moving, gewgaw, geyser, gimcrack, go off half-cocked, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, ground speed, gush, hair, halfpenny, hand gallop, harum-scarum, haste, hasten, hasten on, hastiness, head-on attack, headlong rush, heavy demand, heavy right foot, helter-skelter, hie, hie on, high lope, high-priority, hill of beans, hump, hump it, hurriedness, hurry, hurry about, hurry along, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, hustle up, imposition, impost, impulse, impulsiveness, indent, infiltration, inflow, insistent demand, instantaneousness, issue, jest, jet, jog trot, joke, jollies, jump, jump off, kick, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knots, lash, lawn grass, leap, levy, lift, lightning attack, lightning speed, lightning war, lope, lose no time, make, make a fuss, make haste, mass attack, maximum speed, megadeath, miles per hour, mill run, millrace, minikin, mockery, molehill, mounting, move quickly, mugging, nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblique motion, offense, offensive, ongoing, onrush, onset, onslaught, onward course, open throttle, order, ornamental grass, outbreak, outburst, outflow, overhastiness, overkill, panzer warfare, passage, pell-mell, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, plunge, plunging, post, pother, pour, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, precipitateness, precipitation, precociousness, precocity, prematureness, prematurity, press, press on, progress, promptitude, promptness, push, push on, push through, quicken, quickness, quiver, race, radial motion, railroad through, random motion, rap, rapidity, rapids, red cent, reed, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, regurgitate, requirement, requisition, retrogression, rising, round pace, row of pins, rpm, run, run against, run at, rush about, rush along, rush around, rush at, rush of emotion, rush order, rush through, sally, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, sensation, set, shake a leg, shit, shiver, shock tactics, shoot, shudder, sideward motion, sinking, skedaddle, snap, snappiness, sneeshing, soaring, sortie, sou, spate, speed, speed along, speed up, speediness, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray, sprint, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stampede, step on it, sternway, storm, straw, stream, strike, subsiding, surge, surge back, surge of emotion, swift rate, swiftness, tax, taxing, tear, tear around, thrill, tide, tilt at, tingle, tingling, titillation, to-do, torrent, toy, traject, trajet, tremor, tremor of excitement, trend, tribute, trifle, trinket, triviality, trot, tuppence, turbulence, turmoil, two cents, twopence, ultimatum, undercurrent, undertow, unprovoked assault, untimeliness, upward motion, urge, urgent, velocity, volcan, warning, water flow, whim-wham, whip, whip along, whiz, whiz about, wide-open speed

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-Germanic *ruskjō (compare West Frisian risk, Dutch rus ‘bulrush’, Norwegian dialect ryskje ‘hair-grass’), from Proto-Indo-European *resg- ‘to plait, wattle’ (compare Irish rusg ‘bark’, Latin restis ‘rope’, Latvian režģis ‘basketwork’, Serbo-Croatian {{ Template:Hrv/script |rògoz| face=term | lang=hrv }} ‘reed’, Ancient Greek arrikhos ‘basket’, Persian raɣza ‘woollen cloth’).

Etymology 2

From Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle”), from Old English hryscan, hrȳscan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hruskijanan (“to startle, drive”), *hruskanan, *hurskanan (“to be quick, be clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *kors- (“to run, hurry”). Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”). More at hurry.

etymology note

Alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen "to rush" from Old English *ruscian, rūscian "to rush" from Proto-Germanic *ruskōjanan, *ruskanan (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsanan (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewǝ- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci "snell, quick", Middle Low German rūschen "to rush", Middle High German rūschen, riuschen "to rush" (German rauschen "to rush"), North Frisian ruse "to rush", Middle Dutch ruuscen "to make haste", Middle Dutch rūsen "to rush" (Dutch ruisen "to rush"), Danish ruse "to rush", Swedish rusa "to rush". Compare Middle High German rūsch "a charge, rush". Influenced by Middle English russhen "to force back" from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.

According to the OED, English rush is an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer "to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", also "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily", from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser "to retreat, drive back"), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refusare and Latin refundere "to cause to flow back", although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of remote use of shared hardware.

Derived terms

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

plant
stem of that plant

Noun

sudden forward motion
surge
haste
onslaught — see onslaught
rapid, noisy flow
act of running at another player
pleasurable sensation experienced after use of a stimulant
sudden, brief exhilaration
regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities

Verb

hurry
military: make a sudden attack
flow rapidly and often noisily
football: dribble rapidly
cause something or someone to move with unusual haste
cause someone to act with unusual haste
perform something with great haste
attack swiftly and without warning to
transport or carry quickly
American football: run directly at another player
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