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Rushed

adjective

Done under pressure. Synonym: rush.

Rush

verb

(past & past part. rushed; pres. part. rushing)

Move fast. Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it. "The cars raced down the street"

Attack suddenly.

Urge to an unnatural speed. Synonym: hurry.

Act or move at high speed. Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp. "Hurry--it's late!"

Run with the ball, in football.

Cause to move fast or to rush or race. Synonym: race.

Cause to occur rapidly. Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate.

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"Rushed" Quotes from Famous Books

... two hands upflung, and a head that ducked as if before an oncoming blow, had rushed from the room. For the second time that day Daniel Burton ...

— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter

... things happened quickly with Max Doran. He seemed to dream them, and was still in the dream, tearing toward Chicago in a special train whose wheels rushed through the night in tune with that first-act music from ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... a natural tremor. Meanwhile, a strange look—a close observer would have called it a look of consternation—had rushed into Meynell's face. He stared at Barron, made one or two attempts to speak, and, a last, ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... of those days which seem to forecast the Dreadful Day of Revelation wherein no shelter may be found from the judgment of the fiery firmament. On that day men fell in their tracks and died, or were rushed to hospitals to be succored as by a miracle. And on that day the poor old man who had all his life feared and dreaded the heat as the most loathly happening of earth, walked afield for love of the little ...

— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... one was there. She supposed that it was Risler: for no one else had the right to enter her apartments so unceremoniously. The idea of having to endure the presence of that hypocritical face, that false smile, was so distasteful to her that she rushed to close ...

— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet

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