rushing

rushing
    n 1: (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by
         running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop
         a rush" [syn: {rush}, {rushing}]
    2: the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his
       haste to leave he forgot his book" [syn: {haste}, {hurry},
       {rush}, {rushing}]
    

Rush \Rush\ (r[u^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rushed} (r[u^]sht);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Rushing}.] [OE. ruschen; cf. AS. hryscan to
   make a noise, D. ruischen to rustle, G. rauschen, MHG.
   r[=u]schen to rush, to rustle, LG. rusken, OSw. ruska, Icel.
   & Sw. ruska to shake, Dan. ruske to shake, and E. rouse.]
   1. To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous
      rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush
      down a precipice.
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            Like to an entered tide, they all rush by. --Shak.
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   2. To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or
      without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush
      business or speculation.
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            They . . . never think it to be a part of religion
            to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
                                                  --Sprat.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "rushing":
      abrupt, affluent, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
      confluent, coursing, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
      down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, fluxional,
      fluxive, flying, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory,
      hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, mazy, meandering, mounting,
      passing, plunging, pouring, precipitant, precipitous, profluent,
      progressive, racing, reflowing, refluent, regressive,
      retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running,
      serpentine, sideward, sinking, sluggish, soaring, streaming,
      sudden, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending, upward, vortical