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rushing

noun

  1. process of weaving rushes or similar materials
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌʃɪŋ/

adj

  1. Rapidly flowing or surging.
  2. Full of activity, busy.

    “I have been in Chicago.” “Yes, I’ll bet you have,” Bocage mused. “But it is too rushing for my nerves,” Stockbridge continued.

    There are a few months in the winter when business on the farm is less rushing than during other times […]

name

  1. A surname.

noun

  1. A rapid surging motion.

    […] the impediment to the entrance of air into the corresponding portions of the lung is sufficient to produce a succession of interrupted rushings of that fluid during the efforts of respiration […]

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of rush