whooshnoun
uk/wʊʃ/us/wʊʃ/informal[ C usually singular ] a soft sound made by something moving fast through the air or like that made when air is pushed out of something:
The train sped through the station with a whoosh.
[ S ] a sudden fast movement of a liquid or air:
I felt a great whoosh of adrenalin.
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- chime
- chug
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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Moving quickly
Masses and large amounts of things
whooshverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/wʊʃ/us/wʊʃ/informalto move along quickly, making a soft sound like the wind:
A fast motorboat whooshed by.
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- glide
- gun
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
whooshexclamation
uk/wʊʃ/us/wʊʃ/informalused to describe something that happens very fast, with no pauses or delay:
No sooner had she arrived than, whoosh, she was off again.
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- mile
- rapid-fire
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
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