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1. Move fast
   "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests";
   - hotfoot, hasten, hie [archaic], speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it, travel rapidly, hurry, zip
    
2. Attack suddenly
    
3. Urge to an unnatural speed
   "Don't rush me, please!";
   - hurry
    
4. Act or move at high speed
   "We have to rush!";
   - hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate [archaic], hurry up, make haste, get a move on
    
5. Run with the ball, in football
    
6. Cause to move fast or to rush or race
   "The psychologist rushed the rats through a long maze";
   - race
    
7. Cause to occur rapidly
   - induce, stimulate, hasten, speed up, accelerate

1. The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
   "in his rush to leave he forgot his book";
   - haste, hurry, rushing
    
2. A sudden forceful flow
   - spate, surge, upsurge, upswell
    
3. Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
    
4. A sudden pleasurable excitement
   "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin";
   - bang, boot, charge, flush, thrill, kick
    
5. A sudden burst of activity
   "come back after the rush"
    
6. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
   "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush";
   - rushing

1. Not accepting reservations
   - first-come-first-serve
    
2. Done under pressure
   "a rush job";
   - rushed

1. Physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)
   - Benjamin Rush

Derived forms: rushes, rushing, rushed

See also: hurried, unreserved

Type of: act, American Revolutionary leader, assail, assault, attack, bog plant, burst, displace, doc, doctor, Dr., effect, effectuate, excitement, exhilaration, exhort, flare-up, flow, flowing, go, locomote, marsh plant, MD, medico, motion, move, movement, outburst, physician, press, run, running, running game, running play, set on, set up, swamp plant, travel, urge, urge on

Antonym: delay, linger

Part of: family Juncaceae, Juncaceae, rush family

Encyclopedia: Rush, New York