rush

rush
v
1. hasten, Literary. haste, hurry, move quickly, lose no time; make haste, Scot. swith, Scot. whirry, race, scurry, skip, spurt, whisk, run, sprint; press on, push on, shoot, tear, fly, fly on the wings of the wind, outstrip the wind, take wing, take to flight; scour, hustle, bustle, scamper, scuttle, trip, flit; hotfoot, hotfoot it, hightail, 'hightail it, Inf. skeddadle, Inf. move on out, Inf. move it, be on the run, beat a hasty retreat; whip off, whip away, dash off, run like mad, Sl. get cracking, Sl. get one's rear in gear, Sl. shake a leg, Sl. go like a bat out of hell, go or run wide open, Inf. go like a shot; speed up, put on more speed, step on the gas, Sl. step on it, Sl. burn up the road, cover ground, Inf. burn rubber, Inf. scratch off; make strides, do some tall stepping, hie one's way, Inf. make it snappy, look alive.
2. accelerate, quicken, advance, precipitate; expedite, dispatch, make short work of; finish quickly, dash off, send through fast.
3. charge, attack, blitzkrieg, blitz, rampage, assault; set upon, pounce upon, descend upon, fall on, open fire upon; light into, Inf. lace into, Inf. rip into, Inf. tear into, Sl. zap; beset, besiege, siege, beleaguer, Inf. gang up on.
n
4. charge, attack, assault, offensive, onslaught, blitzkrieg, blitz; storming, Fr. coup de main. invasion, aggression, incursion, escalade; siege, be-siegement, besetment; surge, sudden appearance, ambush; onset, sudden commencement, fast start, abrupt beginning.
5. drive, dash, run, stampede; scramble, mad scramble, race, scurry, push, plunge.
6. haste, harum-scarum, hurry-scurry, pell-mell, helter-skelter; bustle, ado, hubbub; velocity, speed, rapidity, dispatch, celerity; quickness, expedition, promptitude, hastiness; flurry, flutter, turmoil, commotion; stir, whirl, pother, ferment.
adj
7. hasty, quick, rapid, swift, fast, brisk; prompt, expeditious, instantaneous, immediate; hurried, urgent; careless, slapdash, cursory, superficial

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