inrush
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- Noun
- IPA(key): /ˈɪnˌɹʌʃ/
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- Verb
- IPA(key): /ˌɪnˈɹʌʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌʃ
Noun
inrush (plural inrushes)
- A crowding or flooding in.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- As we swung around, the full force of the current caught us and drove the stern against the rocks; there was a thud which sent a tremor through the whole craft, and then a moment of nasty grinding as the steel hull scraped the rock wall. I expected momentarily the inrush of waters that would seal our doom; but presently from below came the welcome word that all was well.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- We found Pop Glossop in his pantry polishing silver, and put in our order. He seemed a little surprised at the inrush of such a multitude, but on learning that our tongues were hanging out obliged with a bottle of the best […]
- The initial flow of electricity into a component when it is switched on.
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Verb
inrush (third-person singular simple present inrushes, present participle inrushing, simple past and past participle inrushed)
- (obsolete) To rush in.
- 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:
- The Ocean, ready to inrush upon them.
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