downrush
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[edit ]Verb
[edit ]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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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]downrush (plural downrushes )
- A rushing down.
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