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Flush   /fləʃ/   Listen
Flush

noun
1.
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity.  Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime.
2.
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health.  Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness.
3.
Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders).  Synonym: hot flash.
4.
A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit.
5.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
6.
A sudden rapid flow (as of water).  Synonyms: gush, outpouring.  "There was a little gush of blood" , "She attacked him with an outpouring of words"
7.
Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty).  Synonym: blush.
verb
(past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)
1.
Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.  Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden.
2.
Flow freely.
3.
Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.
4.
Make level or straight.  Synonyms: even, even out, level.
5.
Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.  Synonyms: purge, scour.  "Purge the old gas tank"
6.
Irrigate with water from a sluice.  Synonym: sluice.
7.
Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.
adjective
1.
Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane.  "The bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
2.
Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value.  Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy.  "A speculator flush with cash" , "Not merely rich but loaded" , "Moneyed aristocrats" , "Wealthy corporations"
adverb
1.
Squarely or solidly.
2.
In the same plane.



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"Flush" Quotes from Famous Books



... fair chance that on our way into the Rift Valley we should flush one or another of the larger animals. Preparations for such a contingency were accordingly made before starting from Sewell's farm. Canteens and iron drums were filled with water, because the next camp would be a dry one. The cinematograph, cameras, and all ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... cylinder of the standard size (Fig. 42); this is prolonged in a pin of the same diameter as the shaft of the dart. A piece of pith transfixed by the pin is shaved with a sharp knife until its surface is flush with that ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... declared that the State ought to attempt no improvement which it could not afford to construct and to own. He favored a few specific enterprises and the making of careful surveys and estimates before any others should be taken up. But it was the very height of "flush times" in Illinois, and the legislature added millions to the vast sums in which the State was already committed to the support of canals, railroads, river improvements, and banks. It was but a few weeks from the adjournment in March to the great financial panic of 1837, ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown
... the seal and read. As his eyes went down the lines, a deep flush crept through the tan of his face, and the paper trembled in ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler
... amount of strawberries. Sid Strang and the hotel bench brigade assisted. They made engagements to take Pearlie and her friend down river next day, and to the ball game, and planned innumerable picnics, gazing meanwhile into the leading lady's eyes. There grew in the cheeks of the leading lady a flush that was not brought about by the pink slip, or the Japanese lanterns, or the ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber


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