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What is the adjective for rushes?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb rush which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

rushed
  1. Very busy.
  2. Done in haste; done quickly.
  3. Abounding or covered with rushes.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In these circumstances, the thesis can become a rushed attempt at a complex document, and the results of the retrospective haste will be apparent for all to see and read.”
      “In the past, we may have been too rushed to smell the roses, yet now can appreciate our lives for what they are because there is nowhere else we have to be.”
rushy
  1. (of a marsh etc) abounding in rushes
  2. having the characteristics of a rush (the plant); rushlike
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “On November 1st, all the young sportsmen of the countryside with dogs, guns and bags took to the bogs and rushy fields, with hopes of good bags of game birds.”
      “This westernmost tip of County Galway, its small walled fields full of rushy bog and granite boulders, has always been a harsh place to scratch a living.”
      “There was nothing combative about them this morning, sun basking and amicably feeding in their rushy hollow.”
rush
  1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The article was obviously a rush job as evidenced by a litany of grammatical errors.”
      “A rush marriage I can not, and will not, agree to while Judy is so young.”
rushy
  1. Characterised by rushing; hurried; fast-paced
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “On November 1st, all the young sportsmen of the countryside with dogs, guns and bags took to the bogs and rushy fields, with hopes of good bags of game birds.”
      “This westernmost tip of County Galway, its small walled fields full of rushy bog and granite boulders, has always been a harsh place to scratch a living.”
      “There was nothing combative about them this morning, sun basking and amicably feeding in their rushy hollow.”
rushlike
  1. Resembling a rush (the plant).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Fountain plant, Russelia equisetiformis, is an easy perennial with arching, slender, rushlike branches and an abundance of orange-red tubular blooms spring to frost.”
rushier
  1. comparative form of rushy: more rushy
rushiest
  1. superlative form of rushy: most rushy
rushing
  1. present participle of rush
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The staff was clearly rushing and focusing on throughput, trying to respond to what was important to leadership.”
      “I listen to the rushing stream and watch a caddis fly dance across the surface.”
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