Definitions of FLUSH in various dictionaries:
noun -
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
noun -
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
noun -
sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
noun -
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
noun -
the swift release of a store of affective force
noun -
a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
noun -
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
verb -
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
verb -
flow freely
verb -
glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
verb -
make level or straight
verb -
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
verb -
irrigate with water from a sluice
verb -
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
adj -
of a surface exactly even with an adj oining one, forming the same plane
adj -
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
adv -
squarely or solidly
adv -
in the same plane
To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush.
To glow, especially with a reddish color: The sky flushed pink at dawn.
To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.
To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet.
To cause to redden or glow.
To excite or elate: The negotiators were flushed with the success of their final meeting.
To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water: flush a toilet; flush a wound with iodine.
To remove or eliminate by or as if by flushing: “The weakness in demand and productivity will at least... flush out some of the inflation premium that has been built into interest rates” (Fortune).
A flooding flow or rush, as of water.
The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing.
A blush or glow: “here and there a flush of red on the lip of a little cloud” (Willa Cather).
A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.
A rush of strong feeling: He felt a flush of pride as he watched his children.
A state of freshness or vigor.
Having a healthy reddish color; flushed.
Having an abundant supply of money; affluent.
Marked by abundance; plentiful: flush times resulting from the oil boom.
Swelling; overflowing: rivers flush with the spring rains.
Having surfaces in the same plane; even.
Aligned evenly with a margin, as along the left or right edge of a typeset page; not indented.
Direct, straightforward, or solid: knocked out by a flush blow to the jaw.
Designed to be emptied or cleaned by flushing: a flush toilet.
So as to be even, in one plane, or aligned with a margin.
Squarely or solidly: The ball hit him flush on the face.
A hand in which all the cards are of the same suit but not in numerical sequence, ranked above a straight and below a full house in poker.
To frighten (a game bird, for example) from cover.
To dart out or fly from cover.
adj - having a healthy, reddish color
adj - of the color of blood
verb - to put in order