downrush
English
Etymology
From down- + rush.
Verb
downrush (third-person singular simple present downrushes, present participle downrushing, simple past and past participle downrushed)
- (intransitive) 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.
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Derived terms
- downrushing
Noun
downrush (plural downrushes)
- A rushing down.