flush

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flush

The carpenter ensures the new cabinet door is flush with the wall.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Having a plentiful supply of money; wealthy: Being in a state of abundant financial resources.
    • Exactly even or level with an adjoining surface: Forming a continuous, flat plane with another surface.
    • Having a red or rosy color, especially in the face: Exhibiting a healthy or emotional reddish complexion.

  2. Adverb:

    • So as to be level or even: Positioned in the same plane as another surface.
    • Squarely or directly: Hitting or facing something in a straight, direct manner.

  3. Noun:

    • A reddening of the face, typically from emotion: A sudden blush due to embarrassment, guilt, or modesty.
    • A sudden, rapid flow of liquid: A brief, strong gush of water or another substance.
    • A surge of feeling or excitement: A sudden, intense wave of emotion or sensation.
    • A hand in poker where all cards are of the same suit: A specific, strong combination in the card game poker.
    • A period of freshness, vigor, or prosperity: The peak or most thriving stage of something.

  4. Verb:

    • To cleanse or rinse with a sudden flow of liquid: To wash out by causing water to flow through forcefully.
    • To cause to flow freely: To make a liquid surge or flood.
    • To become red in the face; to blush: To have one's face turn red, often from emotion.
    • To glow with warm color: To become suffused with a reddish or rosy light.
    • To level or make even: To bring a surface into the same plane as another.
Examples of Usage

  • Adjective:

    • The company was flush with cash after the successful IPO.
    • Ensure the panel is flush with the wall for a seamless look.
    • Her cheeks were flush from the cold winter air.

  • Adverb:

    • Install the shelf so it sits flush against the bracket.
    • The boxer was hit flush on the jaw.

  • Noun:

    • A flush of embarrassment spread across his face.
    • He heard the flush of the toilet.
    • Winning the award gave her a flush of pride.
    • He won the hand with a royal flush.
    • She was in the flush of her youth.

  • Verb:

    • Please flush the wound with clean water.
    • He opened the valve to flush the pipes.
    • She flushed when he complimented her.
    • The sky flushed with the colors of dawn.
    • They used a plane to flush the uneven concrete.
Advanced Usage

  • "Flush with" (Adjective Phrase): Having an abundance of something, especially money or a resource.

    • The startup was flush with investor funding.

  • "In the first flush of" (Idiomatic Phrase): In the early, most vigorous stage of something.

    • They were in the first flush of their romance.
Variants and Related Words

  • Flushed (Adjective): Having a reddened face, typically from emotion, heat, or exertion.

    • He arrived, flushed and out of breath.

  • Flushness (Noun): The state of being level or even; or the state of being plentiful.

    • The carpenter checked the flushness of the joints.

  • Flushable (Adjective): Designed to be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.

    • The product is marketed as flushable.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (Wealthy): Affluent, prosperous, loaded.
  • Adjective (Level): Even, level, aligned.
  • Noun (Blush): Blush, redness, glow.
  • Noun (Flow): Gush, surge, outpouring.
  • Verb (Clean): Rinse, cleanse, sluice.
  • Verb (Blush): Blush, redden, color.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Flush out:
    • To force something out into the open by using a flow of liquid or pressure.
      • They used water to flush out the rodents from the burrow.
    • To expose or reveal something hidden.
      • The investigation aimed to flush out the truth.
Related Idioms

  • Royal flush: In poker, an unbeatable hand consisting of an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten, all of the same suit. Often used metaphorically to mean the best possible combination.

    • Getting that contract was a royal flush for their business.

  • Flush it (Informal): To discard or get rid of something, often with finality.

    • That idea didn't work; let's just flush it and start over.
flush

The carpenter ensures the new cabinet door is flush with the wall.

Adjective
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. in the same plane
    • set it flush with the top of the table
  2. squarely or solidly
    • hit him flush in the face
Noun
  1. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
  5. sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
  6. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
  7. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Verb
  1. cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
    • flush the meadows
  2. irrigate with water from a sluice
    • sluice the earth
  3. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    • flush the wound with antibiotics
    • purge the old gas tank
  4. make level or straight
    • level the ground
  5. glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
    • the sky flushed with rosy splendor
  6. flow freely
    • The garbage flushed down the river
  7. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
    • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

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