Dictionary Entry
rush
rush is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
- 2noun
The merest trifle; a straw.
- 3intransitive verb
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
- 4intransitive verb
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
- 5transitive verb
To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
- 6transitive verb
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
- 7noun
A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
- 8noun
Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
- 9noun
A perfect recitation.
- 10noun
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
- 11noun
The act of running with the ball.
- 12noun
the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
"in his haste to leave he forgot his book"
- 13noun
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
"the linebackers were ready to stop a rush"
Synonyms
- 14noun
a sudden burst of activity
"come back after the rush"
- 15noun
a sudden forceful flow
- 16noun
the swift release of a store of affective force
"they got a great bang out of it"
"what a boot!"
- 17noun
physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)
- 18noun
grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
- 19verb
urge to an unnatural speed
"Don't rush me, please!"
Synonyms
- 20verb
act or move at high speed
"We have to rush!"
"hurry--it's late!"
- 21verb
attack suddenly
- 22verb
cause to occur rapidly
"the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
- 23verb
move fast
"He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"
"The cars raced down the street"
- 24verb
cause to move fast or to rush or race
"The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
Synonyms
- 25verb
run with the ball, in football
- 26adjective
done under pressure
"a rush job"
Synonyms
- 27adjective
not accepting reservations
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