rush
- noun
- /rʌʃ/
- After finishing the race, she experienced a rush of adrenaline that made her feel alive.
- adrenaline rush
- feel a rush
- experience the rush
It's good for dopamine rush, but see it as a counter.
- It's good for dopamine rush, but see it as a counter.
- So then they're brought back to life and there's this huge rush and there's a lift.
- Dude, I was, I was with like with a rush of adrenaline.
- And I got a rush from nailing the close up.
- What a rush that must be for some people.
- They give you a nice a nice endorphin rush for sure.
- I would say there is a rush to your brain that you feel a lot of.
- It's it's like a hot rush, itchy, it's uncomfortable.
- feel the feeling, the rush. See, your blood in your nervous system
Examples
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We launched the craft in a rush of excitement and song at eight o'clock.
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By then, she'll be on a sugar rush, so she's gonna be craving a fourth bottle.
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And then I leave and I feel like a rush of something.
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I mean, yeah, it's the biggest rush on Earth.
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It's the biggest rush of your life.
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You said that you were there and suddenly had this rush of just pure love.
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They want to experience the rush, the power, right?
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And I got a rush from nailing the close up.
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And some teenagers, you know, they get quite a rush from stamp collecting.
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What a rush huh?
Synonyms
A strong feeling of happiness and eagerness, or something that causes it
A sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure that can include fear
A sudden feeling of energy or excitement
A very strong feeling of happiness and excitement
A sudden strong feeling of excitement or pleasure
A strong feeling of excitement and interest
A quick feeling of excitement or pleasure
A sudden feeling of excitement or thrill
A sudden red color on the face from strong feeling or heat
A sudden strong feeling that makes you active and excited
A sudden strong feeling of excitement and energy in a thrilling or stressful situation
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- UK
A tall plant with many soft, upright stems that grows at the edges of ponds and marshes
A grass-like wetland plant with thin round stems that spreads along the ground
- Australian
A tall Australian plant that grows in wet places and has hollow stems in separate sections
- Specialized
A wildflower with narrow leaves and pale violet or white flowers that grows in wetlands in North America
A grass with thin, stiff stems and flower groups covered by leaves that grows in wet ground
- Specialized
A plant with thin stems that grows in clumps in wet places like marshes
- Specialized
A water plant with thin leaves kept in aquariums to give oxygen to the water
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rush came to mean a sudden strong feeling, like a quick 'surge' of excitement or drug effect, which is why we call a fast burst of pleasure or energy a rush.