[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rush \rush\ ru^sh, v. i. imp.  p. p. rushed ru^sht;
   p. pr.  vb. n. rushing. oe. ruschen; cf. as. hryscan to
   make a noise, d. ruischen to rustle, g. rauschen, mhg.
   r=uschen to rush, to rustle, lg. rusken, osw. ruska, icel.
    sw. ruska to shake, dan. ruske to shake, and e. rouse.
   1. to move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous
      rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush
      down a precipice.
      1913 webster

            like to an entered tide, they all rush by. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or
      without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush
      business or speculation.
      1913 webster

            they . . . never think it to be a part of religion
            to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
                                                  --sprat.
      1913 webster
see also:
rushed rushing 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rushing
     n 1: american football an attempt to advance the ball by
          running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to
          stop a rush" syn: rush
     2: the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in
        his haste to leave he forgot his book" syn: haste, hurry,
         rush
see also:
rush haste hurry 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

63 moby thesaurus words for "rushing":
   abrupt, affluent, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward,
   confluent, coursing, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent,
   down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, fluxional,
   fluxive, flying, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory,
   hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, mazy, meandering, mounting,
   passing, plunging, pouring, precipitant, precipitous, profluent,
   progressive, racing, reflowing, refluent, regressive,
   retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running,
   serpentine, sideward, sinking, sluggish, soaring, streaming,
   sudden, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending, upward, vortical

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