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rushed

/ɹʌʃt/ adjective B1
  1. Very busy. · I was so rushed today, I didn't have time to eat lunch.
  2. Done in haste; done quickly or hastily. · My rushed attempt at an essay received a predictably poor grade.
  3. Abounding or covered with rushes.
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He rushed downstairs and sent somebody—they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement—out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 6 · C1
Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 66 · C1
Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 135 · C1
Silas Sloane’s folks rushed out to see us and everybody we met on the road stopped and stared after us.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 159 · C1

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