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UK
/ɹˈæʃ/
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[ US /ˈɹæʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæʃ/ ]
NOUN
- any red eruption of the skin
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a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
a blizzard of lawsuits
a rash of bank robberies
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
imprudently incurring risk
do something rash that he will forever repent
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.