1. Move or travel very quickly
   "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "We had to rush along to catch the last train";
   - hotfoot, hasten, hie [archaic], speed, race, pelt along [informal], rush along, bucket along [informal], belt along [informal], step on it [informal], travel rapidly, hurry, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal], whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], bucket [informal], belt [informal], barrel [informal], rocket [informal], wing [informal], pelt [informal]
    
2. Attack suddenly
   "The army rushed the enemy's fortifications"
    
3. Move faster or act quickly or quicker
   "We have to rush!";
   - hasten, hurry, look sharp [informal], festinate [archaic], hurry up, make haste, get a move on [informal]
    
4. Urge to an unnatural speed
   "Don't rush me, please!";
   - hurry
    
5. Cause to move fast or to rush or race
   "The psychologist rushed the rats through a long maze";
   - race
    
6. Cause to occur rapidly
   "We need to rush the project to meet the deadline";
   - induce, stimulate, hasten, accelerate, speed up
    
7. Run with the ball, in football
   "The quarterback rushed for a touchdown"

1. The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
   "in his rush to leave he forgot his book";
   - haste, hurry, rushing
    
2. A sudden burst of activity
   "come back after the rush"
    
3. A sudden, often forceful flow
   "A rush of adrenaline coursed through her veins";
   - spate, surge, upsurge, tide, upswell
    
4. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
   "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush";
   - rushing
    
5. A sudden pleasurable excitement
   "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin";
   - bang, charge, flush, thrill, kick, buzz [informal]
    
6. Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
   "Rushes lined the edges of the pond"

1. Done under pressure
   "a rush job";
   - rushed
    
2. Not accepting reservations
   "The popular restaurant operated on a rush basis";
   - first-come-first-serve

1. Physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)
   - Benjamin Rush

Derived forms: rushing, rushes, rushed

See also: hurried, unreserved

Type of: act, American Revolutionary leader, assail, assault, attack, bog plant, burst, displace, doc [informal], doctor, Dr., effect, effectuate, excitement, exhilaration, exhort, flare-up, flow, flowing, go, locomote, marsh plant, MD, medico [informal], motion, move, movement, outburst, physician, press, run, running, running game, running play, sawbones [informal], set on, set up, swamp plant, travel, urge, urge on

Part of: family Juncaceae, Juncaceae, rush family

Encyclopedia: Rush, Michael