RUSH OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rush out mean? 

• RUSH OUT (verb)
  The verb RUSH OUT has 1 sense:

1. jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone)

  Familiarity information: RUSH OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSH OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

burst forth; leap out; rush out; sally out

Context example:

The attackers leapt out from the bushes

Hypernyms (to "rush out" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was almost violent, this health of his, and it seemed to rush out of him and at her in waves of force.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a last look around and at the box which contained the vile body, I ran from the place and gained the Count's room, determined to rush out at the moment the door should be opened.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One of our clerks, who was an outsider, used, in the height of this contest, to sit with his hat on, that he might be ready to rush out and swear before a surrogate any victim who was brought in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I see you can say nothing in the first place, you are faint still, and have enough to do to draw your breath; in the second place, you cannot yet accustom yourself to accuse and revile me, and besides, the flood-gates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how to act—talking you consider is of no use.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But when the disease was more stubborn and violent, he let in the muzzle while the bellows were full of wind, which he discharged into the body of the patient; then withdrew the instrument to replenish it, clapping his thumb strongly against the orifice of then fundament; and this being repeated three or four times, the adventitious wind would rush out, bringing the noxious along with it, (like water put into a pump), and the patient recovered.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms—but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)