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flush

Phonetics

/ˈflʌʃ/

noun

verb

To cause to take flight from concealment.
Example: The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.
To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
Example: A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.

Phonetics

/ˈflʌʃ/

adjective

Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
Example: Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
Wealthy or well off.
Example: He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

Phonetics

/ˈflʌʃ/

noun

A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
Example: the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
Example: a flush of joy

verb

To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
Example: Flush the injury with plenty of water.
Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
Example: The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.
To cause to blush.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
Example: to flush the meadows
To excite, inflame.
(of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
Example: There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing.
To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
Example: Blood flushes into the face.
To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet

Phonetics

/ˈflʌʃ/

noun