Emotions
Synonyms for rush
Synonyms for rush: charge and hurry. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for rush
All two are filed under rush's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
the swift release of a store of affective force
He got a quick rush from the roller coaster ride.
rush in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Closing the biggest deal of her career gave her a rush of pride in the meeting room.
- He felt a rush of relief the moment he opened the letter and read the good news.
How it behaves: In this sense rush usually appears as 'a rush of' followed by an emotion noun and is the object of verbs like feel, get, or give, mostly in informal spoken register.
The true synonym
charge
Same sentence, swapped: He got a quick charge from the roller coaster ride.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- intoxication
- warning
- hair
Opposites, in this sense
calm, letdown and numbness reverse rush as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of rush takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- calm
- letdown
- numbness
urge to an unnatural speed
Don't rush me, please!
rush in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The head chef refused to rush the interns, insisting the bread needed its full rising time.
- In her letter she asked him never to rush her decision about the job offer.
How it behaves: Rush in this sense usually takes a personal object, as in "rush me," and appears often in negative imperative or infinitive constructions within informal, spoken registers.
The true synonym
hurry
Same sentence, swapped: Don't hurry me, please!
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for rush in the sentence quoted.
- stimulate
- hotfoot
- delay
Where rush turns up in the game
rush is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where rush is the trap
- urgentadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pressing, in the sense "compelling immediate action", so rush is there to be ruled out.
- dawdleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dally, in the sense "to move or act slowly, wasting time", with rush sitting one tile away.
- flushverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is purge, in the sense "rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid", and rush is on the board beside it.
- regurgitateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is reproduce, in the sense "repeat after memorization", so rush is there to be ruled out.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
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