rash
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From Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong”)
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rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)
- hasty, not careful or considered.
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hasty
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia rash (plural rashes)
- (medicine) An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
- A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend
- There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
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(A surge in problems): epidemic
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of skin
surge in problems
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- rash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- rash in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911