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Definition of Rushed

1. Adjective. Done under pressure. "A rush job"

Definition of Rushed

1. a. Abounding or covered with rushes.

Definition of Rushed

1. Adjective. very busy ¹

2. Adjective. done in haste; done quickly ¹

3. Adjective. abounding or covered with rushes ¹

4. Verb. (past of ''rush'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rushed

1. rush [v] - See also: rush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushed

Literary usage of Rushed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Three days later, Delphine rushed abruptly into the room where her mistress sat. "Madame! madame! there's a man here with a pot of paste who has given me a ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Whereupon Monroe Coble rushed upon James Coble, striking at him with both hands, and Henry Amick, his gun in his hands, also rushed upon him. ..."

3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Upon that four of his under-officers rushed on me, and would have seized by force a dagger which I wore, and some rings I carried on my finger; but Crespino ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"The attacking party rushed in and slew the enemy within. Walker was severely wounded by a bullet in the left thigh, and, before he completely recovered from ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"At the hour of midnight the impetuous multitude, with swords, and bows, and torches in their hands, rushed into the suburbs ; encompassed the palace ;7 and, ..."

6. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"_ . ,1 r> . l 1° t Many of the inhabitants, at the first alarm, rushed i engulfed, as well as the timbers and other wreck, disappeared completely, ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"A species of this genus was discovered in Africa by Foxcroft, who observed that •whenever the ants were molested, they rushed out of their house Fio. 1. ..."

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