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rush

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1. rush - Noun

2. rush - Adjective

3. rush - Verb

4. rush - Adjective Satellite

5. Rush - Proper noun

Meaning

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

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.

Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

A perfect recitation.

A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

The act of running with the ball.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. Bruce Springsteen

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. English Proverb

If you rush things, you'll just make others laugh. Russian Proverb

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall”–but don't rush to pick his up, either. Jewish Proverb

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