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flush
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Adjective
  • having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
    • an affluent banker
    • a speculator flush with cash
    • not merely rich but loaded
    • moneyed aristocrats
    • wealthy corporations
  • of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
    • a door flush with the wall
    • the bottom of the window is flush with the floor
Adverb
  • in the same plane
    • set it flush with the top of the table
  • squarely or solidly
    • hit him flush in the face
Noun
  • sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  • a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
    • he heard the flush of a toilet
    • there was a little gush of blood
    • she attacked him with an outpouring of words
  • the swift release of a store of affective force
    • they got a great bang out of it
    • what a boot!
    • he got a quick rush from injecting heroin
    • he does it for kicks
  • a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
  • sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
  • a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
  • the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Verb
  • cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
    • flush the meadows
  • irrigate with water from a sluice
    • sluice the earth
  • rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    • flush the wound with antibiotics
    • purge the old gas tank
  • make level or straight
    • level the ground
  • glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
    • the sky flushed with rosy splendor
  • flow freely
    • The garbage flushed down the river
  • turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
    • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
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