• IPA: /ɹæʃ/

rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)

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

   rash words spoken in the heat of debate

2. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
3. (obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     I scarce have leisure to salute you, / My matter is so rash.

4. (obsolete) Fast-acting.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.

• brash
• heady
• hotheaded
• impulsive
• inconsiderate
• precipitate

• French: impulsif, hâtif
• German: voreilig, vorschnell
• Italian: imprudente, impulsivo, precipitoso, frettoloso, affrettato
• Portuguese: imprudente, precipitado
• Russian: поспе́шный
• Spanish: precipitado, inconsiderado, adelantado, arrojado, impulsivo

rash (plural rashes)

1. (symptom) An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
2. A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend.

   There has been a rash of vandalism lately.

• (a surge in problems) epidemic

• French: irritation (de la peau), éruption, éruption cutanée
• German: Hautausschlag
• Italian: sfogo cutaneo, eruzione cutanea
• Portuguese: erupção
• Russian: сыпь
• Spanish: eflorescencia, sarpullido, urticaria

• French: épidémie
• Portuguese: surto
• Russian: вспы́шка
• Spanish: erupción

rash (rashes, present participle rashing; past and past participle rashed)

1. (obsolete) To prepare with haste.

rash (uncountable)

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

rash (rashes, present participle rashing; past and past participle rashed)

1. (obsolete) To pull off or pluck violently.
2. (obsolete) To slash; to hack; to slice.

   • rashing of helms and riving plates asunder

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