rushing

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of rush

2. 2

   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 […]
3. 3

   Rapidly flowing or surging.

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   1. 4

      Full 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.
   2. 5

      A surname.

The neighborhood