rushing

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of rushpresent participle and gerund of rush

noun

1. 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 […]

adjective

1. 1

   Rapidly flowing or surging.

2. 2

   datedFull 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 […]

   In the places where “hard licker” was still to be had patrons were lined in front of the bar in a double rank and the trade in bottled goods was as rushing as the bar patronage.

   Over two hundred and fifty customers invaded the Book Exchange Monday and Tuesday as its portals swung open to those who were to receive cash payment for books sold. So rushing was the business yesterday that $500 which the executive had on hand was paid out long before the proposed closing time.

Forms

plural

rushings

comparative

more rushing

superlative

most rushing