uprush

[ uhp-ruhsh ]

/ ˈʌpˌrʌʃ /

an upward rush, as of water or air.

an abrupt increase: an uprush of business during the noon hour.

Origin of uprush

First recorded in 1870–75; up- + rush¹

In this uprush of spirit, her red hair seemed even to bristle and to glisten.

Out of the Air |Inez Haynes Irwin
They came down towards him, fitfully, eddyingly, and passed aside out of the uprush from the fan.

When the Sleeper Wakes |Herbert George Wells
To Maurice, rushing on alone, the relief of hating Eleanor was lost in the uprush of that ghastly possibility: "If it is mine?"

The Vehement Flame |Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
I must bear witness to my conviction that we are beholding a tremendous inrush or uprush of good into man and his world.

Progress and History |Various

I trod quite uneasily on this uprush of the earth; the Spring is always only a fruitful earthquake.

A Miscellany of Men |G. K. Chesterton

uprush

/ (ˈʌpˌrʌʃ) /

an upward rush, as of consciousness