Downrush
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A rushing down.
Verb
- 1 To rush down; rush downward. intransitive
"[...] 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."
Example
More examples"[...] 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."
Etymology
From down- + rush.
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