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Definition of "uprush" [up•rush]

  • The rush of water from a breaking wave onto a beach. Also called swash. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "uprush" in a sentence
  • "I have heard parts of the opera in workshop performances over the years; in fact, I feel our friendship was sealed when I heard its lush opening in a Manhattan performance space several years ago, and thrilled to the uprush of music."
  • "When I have studied or talked with seekers who have had this variety of the spiritual experience, they have told me of a joy that passes understanding, an immense surge of creativity, an instant uprush of kindness and tolerance that makes them impassioned champions for the betterment of all, bridge-builders, magnets for solutions, peacemakers, pathfinders."
  • "If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are."