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Rushing vs Downrush - What's the difference?

rushing | downrush |

As verbs the difference between rushing and downrush

is that rushing is present participle of lang=en while downrush is to rush down; rush downward.

As nouns the difference between rushing and downrush

is that rushing is a rapid surging motion while downrush is a rushing down.

rushing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rapid surging motion.
  • * 1841 , Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, A system of practical medicine

    • downrush

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To rush down; rush downward.
  • *1989 , Michel Gresset, Fascination: Faulkner's fiction, 1919-1936 :
    • [...] For there is death in the sound of it, and a glamorous fatality, like silver pennons downrushing at sunset, or a dying fall of horns along the road to Roncevaux.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A rushing down.