Hurry vs. Rash — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hurry and Rash
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Hurry
Move or act with great haste
Servants hurried around
We'd better hurry
Rash
A rash is a change of the human skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin.
Hurry
Great haste
In my hurry to leave I knocked over a pile of books
Rash
Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.
Hurry
To move or act with speed or haste.
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Rash
A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.
Hurry
To cause to move or act with speed or haste
Hurried the children to school.
Rash
An outbreak of many instances within a brief period
A rash of burglaries.
Hurry
To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush
Was hurried into marriage.
Rash
Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
Rash words spoken in the heat of debate
Hurry
To speed the progress or completion of; expedite
Hurried the delivery of the product.
Rash
Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.
Hurry
Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste
I forgot my gloves in my hurry to catch the bus.
Rash
Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.
Hurry
The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency
In no hurry to leave.
Rash
Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.
Hurry
Rushed action.
Why are you in such a big hurry?
Rash
(archaic) rashly
Hurry
Urgency.
There is no hurry on that paperwork.
Rash
An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word , an illness characterized by a type of rash.
He came out in a rash because of an allergy.
She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.
A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.
Hurry
(American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
Rash
(figuratively)
Hurry
(music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
Rash
An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
Hurry
(intransitive) To do things quickly.
He's hurrying because he's late.
Rash
An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
Hurry
(intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.
Rash
(historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
Cloth rash
Silk rash
Hurry
(transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
Rash
(obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.
Hurry
(transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
Rash
(transitive)
Hurry
(transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
Rash
To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
Hurry
(mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
Rash
To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
Hurry
To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
Impetuous lust hurries him on.
They hurried him abroad a bark.
Rash
To emit or issue (something) hastily.
Hurry
To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
And wild amazement hurries up and downThe little number of your doubtful friends.
Rash
(rare) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
Hurry
To cause to be done quickly.
Rash
(intransitive)
Hurry
To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.
Rash
To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
Hurry
The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts into a violent hurry of thought.
Rash
Of rain: to fall heavily.
Hurry
A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry;
In a hurry to lock the door
Rash
Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
Hurry
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);
He soon regretted his haste
Rash
Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
Hurry
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;
In his haste to leave he forgot his book
Rash
To hack, slash, or slice (something).
Hurry
Move very fast;
The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
Rash
(rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.
Hurry
Act or move at high speed;
We have to rush!
Hurry--it's late!
Rash
To pull off or pluck violently.
Hurry
Urge to an unnatural speed;
Don't rush me, please!
Rash
To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.
Rash
To prepare with haste.
Rash
A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Rash
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
Rash
Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
Rash
Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
I scarce have leisure to salute you,My matter is so rash.
Rash
Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
Rash
Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Rash
So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Was never known a more adventurous knight.
Her rash hand in evil hourForth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
If any yet be so foolhardyTo expose themselves to vain jeopardy;If they come wounded off, and lame,No honor's got by such a maim.
Rash
Any red eruption of the skin
Rash
A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences;
A rash of bank robberies
A blizzard of lawsuits
Rash
Imprudently incurring risk;
Do something rash that he will forever repent
Rash
Marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
Foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans
A reckless driver
A rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center
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