Definitions for rushes

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Spelling: [ruhsh]

IPA: /rʌʃ/

Rushes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in rushes (ehrssu).

Definitions for rushes

noun

1. the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
2. a hostile attack.
3. an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, especially because of a new mine:
4. a sudden appearance or access:
5. hurried activity; busy haste:
6. a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs:
7. press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste.
8. Football. an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the ball across the line of scrimmage. an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the ball.
9. a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges.
10. rushes, Movies. daily (def 4).
11. Informal. a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor:
12. the rushing by a fraternity or sorority.
13. Also called flash. Slang. the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug.
14. any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places. Compare rush family.
15. any plant of the rush family.
16. any of various similar plants.
17. a stem of such a plant, used for making chair bottoms, mats, baskets, etc.
18. something of little or no value; trifle:

adjective

1. requiring or done in haste:
2. characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.:
3. characterized by the rushing of potential new members by a sorority or fraternity:

verb (used with object)

1. to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence:
2. to carry or convey with haste:
3. to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry:
4. to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste:
5. to attack suddenly and violently; charge.
6. to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.).
7. Informal. to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo:
8. to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership.
9. Football. to carry (the ball) forward across the line of scrimmage. to carry the ball (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage: (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the ball).

verb (used without object)

1. to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
2. to dash, especially to dash forward for an attack or onslaught.
3. to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly:
4. Football. to carry the ball on a running play or plays.

Origin of rushes

1325-75; (v.) Middle English ruschen Anglo-French russher, russer, Old French re(h)usser, re(h)user, ruser Late Latin recūsāre, to push back, Latin: to refuse. See recu

Examples for rushes

Traffic is still dense along Hicks Street but no one rushes him.

At length, unable to endure it longer, he rushes out into the air.

Lohse rushes Sigma Alpha Epsilon, gets a bid, endures pledge term, and then submits to the dehumanizing rigors of Hell Night.

Then the filmmakers show Anwar the rushes and ask him for feedback.

The youth pondered, and drew a plan amongst the rushes with the point of his staff.

There were no rushes to make water-wheels of, and no brooks to set them turning in.

Meanwhile, Annie ends things with Walter at the Rainbow Room and rushes to the Empire State Building to meet Sam.

Each repels its like and rushes to the embrace of its opposite.

She is about to offer him her cheek, then salutes instead, and rushes off, with Roger in pursuit.

At this point, Franco says an abrupt “goodbye”  and rushes off to the theater for a matinee performance.