What is the meaning of flush?

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.
  • 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"
  • Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty.

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"
  • 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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). flush. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/flush/definitions/1174302
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