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rushing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rushing has 2 senses
- rushing(n = noun.act) rush - (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush" is a kind of run, running, running game, running play
- rushing(n = noun.act) haste, hurry, rush - the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" is a kind of motion, move, movement
Derived form verb rush5
has particulars: bolt, dash, scamper, scramble, scurry
Derived forms verb rush4, verb rush1
THESAURUS
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
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