BUM-RUSHING Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

bum-rushing

verb

present participle of bum-rush

as in swarming

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Below, Edwards could see park staff and paramedics swarming the ride’s entrance.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Reese and Canada have helped the team win all four of the Dream’s playoff games, leading a swarming defense.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of swarming

Verb

But nothing can prepare us for the horrific chaos of the attempted murder, with audience members, security and medics mobbing the stage to halt the attack and urgently tend to the victim.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 Jan. 2026
The kick cut Pittsburgh’s lead to 14-9 and sent the Jaguars into the locker room buzzing, with teammates mobbing the second-year kicker in celebration.

— Tobias Bass, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025

Definition of mobbing

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Researchers constructed a hollow fiber membrane lined on the outside with palladium nanoparticles rather than attacking PFAS in open water.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are seeking the public’s help finding a woman accused of attacking a North Lauderdale store clerk with pepper spray earlier this month.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of attacking

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Among those arrested were individuals accused of choking their partners and assaulting their children, the sheriff’s office said.

— Tanya Babbar, Houston Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2026
Selma Blair pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer and nurse after a Delta Air Lines incident.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of assaulting

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Guardado was convicted of robbing and killing a woman in order to buy drugs in 2004.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
To her, romance and courtship isn’t just ambient but invasive, robbing her of friends — both in the sense that men can’t seem to leave things platonic, while women either mock her or shun her in favor of a new date.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of robbing

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At each step in this chain, a portion of the electrons’ energy is siphoned off to pump protons across a membrane—Mitchell’s great insight—and the pressure of those protons rushing back through a molecular turbine is what makes ATP.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
After allowing four sacks and managing 33 rushing yards against the Bears, TCU ranks last in the Big 12 in rushing yards and sacks allowed.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of rushing

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