Rash vs. Lash

Rash and Lash Definitions
Rash
Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.
Lash
A stroke or blow with or as if with a whip.
Rash
A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.
Lash
A whip.
Rash
An outbreak of many instances within a brief period
A rash of burglaries.
Lash
The flexible portion of a whip, such as a plait or thong.
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Rash
Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
Rash words spoken in the heat of debate
Lash
Punishment administered with a whip.
Rash
Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.
Lash
A lacerating presence or power
The lash of conscience.
Rash
Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.
Lash
A caustic verbal attack.
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Rash
Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.
Lash
An eyelash.
Rash
(archaic) rashly
Lash
To strike with or as if with a whip.
Rash
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 , 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.
Lash
To strike against with force or violence
Sleet lashing the roof.
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Rash
(figuratively)
Lash
To beat or swing rapidly
The alligator lashed its tail in the water.
Rash
An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
Lash
To make a scathing oral or written attack against.
Rash
An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
Lash
To drive or goad; sting
Words that lashed them into action.
Rash
(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
Lash
To move swiftly or violently; thrash
Heard the snake lashing about in the leaves.
Rash
(obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.
Lash
To aim a sudden blow; strike
The mule lashed out with its hind legs.
Rash
(transitive)
Lash
To beat; flail
Waves lashing at the shore.
Rash
To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
Lash
To make a scathing verbal or written attack. Often used with out
Lashed out at her critics during the interview.
Rash
To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
Lash
To secure or bind, as with a rope, cord, or chain.
Rash
To emit or issue (something) hastily.
Lash
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
Rash
(rare) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
Lash
(obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
Rash
(intransitive)
Lash
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
Rash
To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
Lash
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
Rash
Of rain: to fall heavily.
Lash
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
Rash
Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
Lash
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
Rash
Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
Lash
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
Rash
To hack, slash, or slice (something).
Lash
An attempt; a go at something.
I'll have a lash.
Rash
(rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.
Lash
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
Setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters
Excessive lash in the gear train
Rash
To pull off or pluck violently.
Lash
(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
Rash
To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.
Lash
(transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
Rash
To prepare with haste.
Lash
(transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
Rash
A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Lash
(transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
Rash
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
Lash
(intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
Rash
Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
Lash
(intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
Rash
Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
I scarce have leisure to salute you,My matter is so rash.
Lash
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Rash
Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
Lash
(transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
To lash something to a spar
Lash a pack on a horse's back
Rash
Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Lash
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.
Rash
So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Was never known a more adventurous knight.
Her rash hand in evil hourForth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
If any yet be so foolhardyTo expose themselves to vain jeopardy;If they come wounded off, and lame,No honor's got by such a maim.
Lash
(obsolete) Relaxed.
Rash
Any red eruption of the skin
Lash
Soft, watery, wet.
Rash
A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences;
A rash of bank robberies
A blizzard of lawsuits
Lash
(Ulster) Excellent, wonderful.
We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
That Chinese (food) was lash!
Rash
Imprudently incurring risk;
Do something rash that he will forever repent
Lash
(Britain) Drunk.
Rash
Marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
Foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans
A reckless driver
A rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center
Lash
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
Lash
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
Lash
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
Lash
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
Lash
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
Lash
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
Lash
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward.
Lash
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.
And big waves lash the frighted shores.
Lash
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
Lash
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
Lash
To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
Lash
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.
Lash
Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
Lash
Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
Lash
A quick blow with a whip
Lash
Beat severely with a whip or rod;
The teacher often flogged the students
The children were severely trounced
Lash
Lash or flick about sharply;
The lion lashed its tail
Lash
Strike as if by whipping;
The curtain whipped her face
Lash
Bind with a rope, chain, or cord;
Lash the horse