Definition of Rash

  • (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
  • (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
  • (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
  • (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
  • (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
  • (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
  • (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
  • (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
  • (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
  • (v. t.) To prepare with haste.

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Homophones of Rash