Definition of Rash

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Definition of Rash

Rash

To pull off or pluck violently.

To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

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.

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

To prepare with haste.

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Rash Quotations

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
Francis W. Newman

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.
Rebecca De Mornay

Rash Translations

rash in German is Hautausschlag {m}, Ausschlag {m}, voreilig
rash in Italian is eczema, eczema
rash in Latin is temerarus
rash in Spanish is salpullido, erupcion, sarpullido

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