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• v  move fast
  He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
• v  attack suddenly
• v  urge to an unnatural speed
• v  act or move at high speed
• v  run with the ball, in football
• v  cause to move fast or to rush or race
• v  cause to occur rapidly
• s  done under pressure

• He rushed at Whitehill, hit him.
• The crowd held back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry.
• Fifty floodlights were rushed from Hollywood studios.

• rush
• hotfoot
• hasten
• hie
• speed
• race
• pelt along
• rush along
• cannonball along
• bucket along
• belt along
• step on it
• hurry
• look sharp
• festinate
• induce
• stimulate

• linger
• delay

News & Articles

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• Two men rushed to hospital after car slams into utility pole
  Two men had to be rushed to the hospital after their car slammed into a utility pole in Reading. It happened just before 5:00 Friday afternoon in the 2000 block of Hill Road. Police say the men were unconscious when they got the scene but are expected to recover. Some nearby residents had their power temporarily knocked out.
  June 15, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey
• Man stabbed, rushed to hospital
  STOCKTON - A 27-year-old man stopped breathing and was rushed to a hospital to undergo emergency surgery after being stabbed late Thursday night in east Stockton, authorities said.
  June 15, 2013 - The Stockton Record
• Apple VP Rushed iBooks Deal While Steve Jobs Was Alive
  Apple senior Vice President Eddy Cue told a Manhattan courtroom Thursday that he rushed through the process of making deals with publishers — so that Steve Jobs could unveil the iBooks store on stage while the Apple founder was still alive Cue is at the center of an antitrust trial where Apple stands accused of fixing prices of e-books at an artificially high level. Department of Justice ...
  June 14, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Newsday
  We're not going to be rushed into it. I don't think Senator Clinton expects a quick decision and I don't even know that she's necessarily interested in that,Obama told NBC in an interview.
• Mitch McConnell in BusinessWeek
  All of us want to deliver a reform bill that will tighten the screws on Wall Street,Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said before the vote. "But we're not going to be rushed into another massive bill based on...
• Phil Mickelson in Washington Post
  I'm more excited that the reason I'm able to play is we've had some good news that has not rushed treatment,Mickelson said, "it has given us the time [and] an opportunity to see some test results and give us better direction on what we...