[ UK /ɹˈæʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any red eruption of the skin
  2. a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
    a blizzard of lawsuits
    a rash of bank robberies
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
    foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
    a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest
    a reckless driver
    became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans
  2. imprudently incurring risk
    do something rash that he will forever repent
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How To Use rash In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • * Got my project 5.9, with a lot of thrash and inelegance. She's got to go away...
  • Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
  • Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
  • John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
  • Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
  • Before one embarks on this high flying experience, the organisers supply a crash helmet, and a safety waist belt which is securely tied with a long and strong rope to the huge multi-coloured parasail.
  • If there was one thing everyday Americans didn't want to hear, it was self-involved celebrities trashing the president.
  • He died after his van crashed into a rubbish truck.
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