noun
- The period of greatest prosperity or productivity.
- A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health.
- Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders.
- synonyms: hot flash
- A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit.
- The swift release of a store of affective force.
- usage: "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 sudden rapid flow (as of water. )
- usage: "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
- synonyms: gush, outpouring
- Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty.
- synonyms: blush
verb
- Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
- usage: "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
- Flow freely.
- usage: "The garbage flushed down the river"
- Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.
- usage: "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
- Make level or straight.
- usage: "level the ground"
- Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.
- usage: "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- Irrigate with water from a sluice.
- usage: "sluice the earth"
- synonyms: sluice
- Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.
- usage: "flush the meadows"
adjective
- Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane.
- usage: "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
- Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value.
- usage: "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
adverb
- Squarely or solidly.
- usage: "hit him flush in the face"
- In the same plane.
- usage: "set it flush with the top of the table"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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