1. Noun
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
2. Noun
The merest trifle; a straw.
3. Verb
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
4. Verb
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
5. Verb
To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
6. Verb
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
7. Noun
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.
8. Noun
Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
9. Noun
A perfect recitation.
10. Noun
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
11. Noun
The act of running with the ball.
12. Verb
cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
13. Noun
the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
14. Noun
grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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