Rash meaning of the word

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Related Story How To Treat Eczema On Black Skin Most people with eczema and psoriasis are well-versed in the appearance (and treatment) of these red, patchy rashes.


—Sarah Bradley, Women’s Health, 6 Apr. 2023




There are no major dangers to trying the face-taping trend, but some people may have reactions like rashes, itchiness, acne breakouts, and redness.


—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 5 Apr. 2023




This causes a red, irritated rash that burns and itches.


—Joelle Smith, Men’s Health, 30 Mar. 2023




Feindt’s husband and kids are currently being represented by Baehr in a separate lawsuit, in which more than 100 U.S. military family members and civilians say the spill resulted in seizures, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological disorders, rashes, thyroid abnormalities, and other issues.


—Li Cohen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023




But since that time, the Hawks traded five everyday players and have had a rash of injuries, even to some of the recent additions, such as Cole Guttman and Anders Bjork.


—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023




Complaints of headaches, rashes, and respiratory problems.


—Jacob Fulton, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023




Small sea creatures and organisms that live in the seaweed, though, can cause rashes, blisters and irritation, if touched.


—Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023




What’s more, B. lonestari had previously caused a circular rash—similar to the one caused by Lyme disease—in an elderly patient who’d been bitten by a lone star tick more than 20 years ago.


—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023

Marburg virus is a rare and deadly virus that causes fever, chills, muscle pain, rash, sore throat, diarrhea, weakness or unexplained bleeding or bruising.


—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023




The temperamental Leo Moon’s clash with shocking Uranus can throw us into some unusual or rash behavior.


—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023




The most common is skin rash.


—Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023




But the story of Full Self-Driving offers a vivid example of how the world’s richest person has complicated one of his biggest bets through rash decision-making, a stubborn insistence on doing things differently, and unyielding confidence in a vision that has yet to be proven.


—Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023




Other symptoms can also show up with croup, including fever, rash, eye redness, and swollen lymph nodes.


—Ashley Abramson, Health, 9 Mar. 2023




Michael DeWitt: Paul was allegedly acting rash and reckless.


—CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023




Floral Zip-Up Surf One-Piece $248 at Saks Fifth Avenue$248 at Neiman Marcus Surf’s up with this one-piece suit that combines the protection of a rash guard top with the ease of a bikini bottom.


—Lauren Caruso, Harper’s BAZAAR, 27 Feb. 2023




The New Republic reported that residents endured burning and itchy eyes, sore throat, rash, and migraines in the aftermath of the train derailment.


—Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023

Whatever is causing the left-hander to pitch terribly away from home this season, the Giants need to address this road rash sooner rather than later.


—Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 2 May 2017


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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɹæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1[edit]

The adjective is derived from Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong, rash”) [and other forms],^[1] probably from Old English *ræsċ (“rash”) (found in derivatives such as ræsċan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”), ræsċettan (“to crackle; to sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *rask, *raskī, *rasku, from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz (“rash; rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, roll”). The Middle English word was probably influenced by the cognates listed below.^[2]

The adverb is derived from Middle English rashe (“quickly, rapidly”), from rash, rasch (adjective) (see above).^[2][3]

Adjective[edit]

rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)

1. Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.

   Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, impulsive, precipitate; see also Thesaurus:reckless

   Antonyms: prudent, unrash

   rash words spoken in the heat of debate

   • 1563 March 30​, John Foxe, “Examinations and Martyrdom of John Philpot”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page [1470]:

     […] Eusebius doth report that Ireneus dyd reprooue Victor byshop of Rome for his rash sentēce in excōmunicating the Churches of Grece, concerning the obseruation of the feast of Easter.

   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Imagination”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, first part (Of Man), page 7:

     For ſitting in his [Marcus Junius Brutus’s] tent, penſive and troubled vvith the horrour of his raſh act, it vvas not hard for him, ſlumbering in the cold, to dream of that vvhich moſt affrighted him; […]

   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book X]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 310:

     [T]hrough the raſh adventure and fool-hardineſs of ſome fevv, an overture only made, and ſome advantage got of performing a great piece of ſervice and vvorthy exploit.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 8–9, page 57:

     I vvas a fool, too raſh, and quite miſtaken / In vvhat I thought vvould have ſucceeded beſt.

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 257:

     So ſhould an ideot vvhile at large he ſtrays, / Find the ſvveet lyre on vvhich an artiſt plays, / VVith raſh and aukvvard force the chords he ſhakes, / And grins vvith vvonder at the jar he makes; […]

   • 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […] In Three Volumes, volume III (Paradise), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, lines 63–68, pages 21–22:

     Take then no vow at random: ta’en, with faith / Preserve it; yet not bent, as Jephthah once, / Blindly to execute a rash resolve, / Whom better it had suited to exclaim, / ‘I have done ill,’ than to redeem his pledge / By doing worse: […]

   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing), →OCLC, page 283:

     She did a rash thing. She sent a letter to Ivy Bolton, enclosing a note to the keeper, and asking Mrs Bolton to give it to him.

2. (Northern England, archaic) Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.
3. (obsolete, rare)
   1. Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.

      • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

        My Lord, I ſcarce haue leiſure to ſalute you, / My matter is ſo raſh: […]

   2. Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.

      • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

        [T]he vnited veſſel of their bloud, / […] / Shall neuer leake, though it doe vvorke as ſtrong, / As Aconitum, or raſh gunpovvder.

      • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 280, column 1:

        Sir (my Lord) / I could doe this, and that vvith no raſh Potion, / But with a lingring Dram, that ſhould not vvorke / Maliciouſly, like Poyſon.

      • 1875–1876, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, part 2, stanza 19, page 17:

        [T]he inboard seas run swirling and hawling; / The rash smart sloggering brine / Blinds her; […]

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Adverb[edit]

rash (comparative more rash, superlative most rash)

1. (archaic) Synonym of rashly (“in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration”)
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 327, column 2:

     VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſh?

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Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Old French rasche, rache (“skin eruption, rash; (specifically) scabies, scurf”) (obsolete), from racher (“to scrape; to scratch”) (although this is only directly attested later than the noun), from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre (“to scrape”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped, scratched; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch; to shave; to rub, smooth; to brush along, graze”),^[4] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch; to gnaw”). Doublet of rase and raze.

Noun[edit]

rash (plural rashes)

1. (dermatology, medicine) An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.

   He came out in a rash because of an allergy.

   She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.

   A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.

2. (figuratively)
   1. An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
   2. An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.

      Synonym: epidemic

      There has been a rash of vandalism lately.

      • 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:

        Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.

      • 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2022:

        Science has tried and failed to come to a consensus about the hygienic superiority of one product over the other. Even so, the paper towel industry has funded or promoted a rash of studies claiming that hand dryers turn bathrooms into mosh pits of pathogens.

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Etymology 3[edit]

Uncertain; the word is similar to other words from Germanic or Romance languages listed in the table below, but the connection between the English word and those words is unclear. One suggestion is that they ultimately derive from the town of Arras in France, known for its cloth and wool industries (whence arras (“tapestry, wall hanging”)); compare German Rasch (“lightly woven silk or (usually) worsted fabric”) (said to be from Middle High German arrasch (“arras”), and ultimately from the name of the town), and the obsolete names for the fabric, Catalan drap de arraz, drap d’Arraç, Italian paño de ras (literally “cloth of Arras”). The Oxford English Dictionary states that even if rash did not originally derive from Arras, the name of the town could have influenced the English word.^[5]

Noun[edit]

rash (uncountable)

1. (historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.

   cloth rash    silk rash

   • p. 1597, J[ohn] Donne, “[Satyres] Satyre IIII”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 338:

     Sleeveleſſe his jerkin vvas, and it had beene / Velvet, but ‘tvvas novv (ſo much ground vvas ſeene) / Become Tufftaffatie; and our children ſhall / See it plaine Raſhe avvhile, or nought at all.

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Etymology 4[edit]

Imitative.^[6]

Noun[edit]

rash (plural rashes)

1. (obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.

   • 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:

     Look on thoſe grave plodding fellovvs, […] I’ll undertake three parts of four are going to their Courtezans. I tell thee, Jack, the vvhiſking of a Silk-Govvn, and the raſh of a Tabby-Pettycoat, are as comfortable ſounds to one of theſe rich Citizens, as the chink of their Pieces of Eight.

Etymology 5[edit]

From Late Middle English rashen, rassh (“to hasten, hurry, rush”) [and other forms],^[7] from Old English ræscan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”);^[8] see further at etymology 1.

Verb[edit]

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed) (chiefly Scotland, archaic or obsolete)

1. (transitive)
   1. To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.

      • c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

        Reg[an]. VVherefore to Douer ſir? / Gloſt[er, i.e., Gloucester]. Becauſe I vvould not ſee thy cruell nayles / Pluck out his poore old eyes, nor thy fierce ſiſter / In his aurynted fleſh raſh boriſh phangs, […]

   2. To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
   3. To emit or issue (something) hastily.
   4. (rare) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.

      • 1610 October​, John Foxe, “[Translation of a Letter of Huldricus Zuinglius, 1 September 1527 (Julian calendar)]”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie, Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, […], volume II, 6th edition, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book VIII, page 987, column 1:

        Retur[n]e to the places of Peter, the one in his firſt epiſtle, the other in the latter: and ſo be you contented with this preſent anſvver raſhed up in haſte.

2. (intransitive)
   1. To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
   2. Of rain: to fall heavily.
   3. Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.

Etymology 6[edit]

PIE word
*wréh₂ds

Probably an aphetic form of arace (“to tear up by the roots; to draw away”) (obsolete), from Middle English aracen (“to remove (something) by force, pluck or pull out, tear out; to grab; to lacerate; to flay or skin (an animal); to erase, obliterate”) [and other forms], from Old French aracer, arachier (“to pull off (by physical force)”) [and other forms] (whence Anglo-Norman racher, aracher (“to pluck out, pull out”); modern French arracher (“to pull up, tear out, uproot; to extract, take out (a tooth); to peel, pull off, rip off; to buy, snap up; to fight over; to tear (oneself) away from”)),^[9][10] a variant of esrachier (“to eradicate, get rid of”), from Latin exrādīcāre, ērādīcāre, the present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + rādīx (“root of a plant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Verb[edit]

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed) (transitive, archaic or obsolete)

1. Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 214:

     There Marinell great deeds of armes did ſhevv; / And through the thickeſt like a Lyon flevv, / Raſhing off helmes, and ryuing plates a ſonder, / That euery one his daunger did eſchevv.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, lines 1094–1095, page 496:

     His Creſt is raſh’d away; his ample Shield / Is falſify’d and round with Jav’lins fill’d.

Etymology 7[edit]

Probably a variant of race, raze (“to demolish; to destroy, obliterate; to scrape as if with a razor”), possibly modelled after rash (etymology 5 or etymology 6).^[11] Raze is derived from Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to pull; to strip off; to pluck or tear out; to root out (a tree, etc.); to pull away, snatch; to pull down; to knock down; to rend, tear apart; to pick clean, strip; to cleave, slice; to sever; to lacerate; to pierce; to carve, engrave; to dig; (figuratively) to expunge, obliterate; to alter”) [and other forms],^[12] from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French, Old French raser (“to shave; to touch lightly, graze; to level off (grain, etc.) in a measure; to demolish, tear down; to erase; to polish; to wear down”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape; to scratch; to touch lightly, graze”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”); see further at etymology 2.

Verb[edit]

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed) (transitive, obsolete)

1. To hack, slash, or slice (something).

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 26:

     And dravving both their ſvvords vvith rage extreme, / Like tvvo mad maſtiffes each on other flevv, / And ſhields did ſhare, & mailes did raſh, and helmes did hevv.

   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene vi, page 148:

     [N]ovv he, comes violently on, and vvithall aduancing his rapier to ſtrike, […] Sir, I miſt my purpoſe in his arme, raſht his doublet ſleeue, ran him cloſe by the left cheek, and through his haire.

2. (rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.

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Anagrams[edit]

• AHRS, SHRA, Sahr, hars, rahs

сыпь, кожная сыпь, экзантема, шуршание, опрометчивый, стремительный

существительное ↓

прилагательное ↓

Словосочетания

a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest — опрометчивая попытка восхождения на Эверест  
a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever — сыпь, характерная для скарлатины  
hasty / rash / snap decision — поспешное решение  
impulsive / rash act — опрометчивый поступок  
hasty / rash action — опрометчивый поступок  
in a rash moment — в спешке  
rash resolve — необдуманное решение  
heat rash — потница  
rash breaks out — сыпь появляется  
to break out in a rash — покрываться сыпью  
rash / risky step — рискованный поступок  
punctate(d) rash — сыпь с мелкими красными точками  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

rasher  — тонкий ломтик бекона, тонкий ломтик ветчины
rashness  — опрометчивость, безрассудство, стремительность
rashly  — опрометчиво, сгоряча, безрассудно, стремительно, слишком поспешно

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): rash
мн. ч.(plural): rashes

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): rasher
прев. степ. (superlative): rashest

rash — перевод на русский

/ræʃ/

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