rash

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rashes

1) ADJ-GRADED If someone is rash or does rash things, they act without thinking carefully first, and therefore make mistakes or behave foolishly.

It would be rash to rely on such evidence...

Mr. Major is making no rash promises...

Don't do anything rash until the feelings subside.

Syn:

hasty, impulsive

Ant:

careful

Derived words:

rashly ADV-GRADED ADV with cl, ADV after v

I made quite a lot of money, but I rashly gave most of it away...

My sister always said I acted rashly.

rashness N-UNCOUNT

With characteristic rashness and valor, Peter plunged into the icy water.

...the rashness of youth.

2) N-COUNT A rash is an area of red spots that appears on your skin when you are ill or have a bad reaction to something that you have eaten or touched.

I noticed a rash on my leg...

He may break out in a rash when he eats these nuts...

The symptoms include skin rashes, fever, and painful joints.

3) N-SING: N of n If you talk about a rash of events or things, you mean a large number of unpleasant events or undesirable things, which have happened or appeared within a short period of time.

They believe this confusion is responsible for a rash of suicides this spring.

...one of the few major airlines left untouched by the industry's rash of takeovers...

Now a rash of scruffy little shops bordered one side of the street.

Syn:

spate of