flush

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