Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The rush of water from a breaking wave onto a beach.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rush upward.
- To rush upward. Southey, Thalaba, xii.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst.
- intransitive verb To rush upward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
upwards rush . - verb intransitive To rush upward.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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An uprush of air makes the curtains billow inward.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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When I have studied or talked with seekers who have had this variety of the spiritual experience, they have told me of a joy that passes understanding, an immense surge of creativity, an instant uprush of kindness and tolerance that makes them impassioned champions for the betterment of all, bridge-builders, magnets for solutions, peacemakers, pathfinders.
Dr. Jean Houston: Spirituality and the Meaning of Mysticism for Our Time 2010
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I have heard parts of the opera in workshop performances over the years; in fact, I feel our friendship was sealed when I heard its lush opening in a Manhattan performance space several years ago, and thrilled to the uprush of music.
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She hadn't known she'd be able to sense it, but the keystone was part of her, formed of her magic and linked to her, and so she'd felt that first fierce uprush of energy as the keystone began to give up its spell.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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He was passing within fifty feet of the creature, and despite the abnormal and curiously detached psychological state in which he had been ever since leaving Jupiter, he felt a sudden uprush of excitement, wonder-and sheer personal pride.
Tin 2010
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It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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The coiling uprush of smoke streamed across the sky, and through the rare tatters of that red canopy, remote as though they belonged to another universe, shone the little stars.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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