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verbdownrush (third-person singular simple present downrushes, present participle downrushing, simple past and past participle downrushed)
present singular third person downrushes · participle present downrushing · participle past downrushed · past downrushed
- intransitiveTo rush down; rush downward.
[...] For there is death in the sound of it, and a glamorous fatality, like silver pennons downrushing at sunset, or a dying fall of horns along the road to Roncevaux.
1989, Michel Gresset, Fascination: Faulkner's fiction, 1919-1936
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