Synonyms for rushing
rush·ing

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1. rush, rushingnoun

   (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line

   "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush"

   Synonyms:
   upsurge, surge, rush, bang, flush, kick, spate, boot, haste, charge, hurry, thrill

2. haste, hurry, rush, rushingnoun

   the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

   "in his haste to leave he forgot his book"

   Synonyms:
   upsurge, surge, boot, precipitation, rush, flush, bang, kick, spate, hurriedness, haste, charge, hurry, thrill, hastiness

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1. • American Football
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1. List of paraphrases for "rushing":

   speeding, hurrying

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How to use rushing in a sentence?

1. Kalusha Bwalya:

   The African members will then report back to the CAF executive when we met on August 6 and we’ll see what will be done after that, at the moment there are a lot of rumors floating about and everyone is rushing to turn the smallest piece of information into a story.

2. Suzeanna Brill:

   Within 14 hours of complying we were rushing our son to the hospital, and it was one of the most horrific seizures I’ve ever seen.

3. Veronika Didusenko:

   It took us two days to get out of Ukraine because of huge traffic jams, everyone was rushing to the border as well. I was driving with military cars on one side and tanks on the other side with Russian helicopters flying above my head. I was very scared for my life and my son’s. There wasn’t enough food, enough water. You especially couldn’t sleep with the sirens going on all the time. Every noise from a car or plane made me look around. I was worried that it was a rocket, a bomb or someone shooting. I can’t even begin to imagine what the people who stayed are going through. I knew I had to survive.

4. Zhu Yanhui:

   I looked up and saw a little child was dangling up there. My first reaction was to find something to catch him, i thought about rushing over there and catch him with my bare hands, but that would not have worked.

5. Patricia Chimbiri:

   I thought they would have first investigated and prosecuted those who abducted and tortured me instead of rushing for us -- the weak.