See rush in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See moveTo come forth or emit in abundance:
flow, gush, pour, run, stream, surge, well1. See move
noun
Careless headlong action:
haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness. See carefulA swift advance or attack:
blitzkrieg, charge. See approachSomething suggestive of running water:
current, drift, flood, flow, flux, spate, stream, surge, tide. See move
adjective
- (Informal)
Designed to meet emergency needs as quickly as possible:
(Informal) crash, hurry-up. See fast
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