Synonyms for flush

Synonyms for (noun) flush

Synonyms: blush, flush

Definition: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

Similar words: unconditioned reflex, inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response

Definition: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus


Synonyms: flush, gush, outpouring

Definition: 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

Similar words: flow, flowing

Definition: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)


Synonyms: flush, kick, boot, charge, bang, thrill, rush

Definition: 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

Similar words: excitement, exhilaration

Definition: the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

Usage: he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed


Synonyms: flush

Definition: a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

Similar words: poker hand

Definition: the 5 cards held in a game of poker


Synonyms: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness

Definition: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Similar words: good health, healthiness

Definition: the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease


Synonyms: flush, hot flash

Definition: sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

Similar words: symptom

Definition: (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease


Synonyms: peak, prime, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, heyday, flower, flush

Definition: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Similar words: time period, period, period of time

Definition: an amount of time

Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period


Synonyms for (verb) flush

Synonyms: crimson, redden, flush, blush

Definition: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

Usage: The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

Similar words: color, colour, discolor, discolour

Definition: change color, often in an undesired manner

Usage: The shirts discolored


Synonyms: flush

Definition: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

Usage: flush the meadows

Similar words: irrigate, water

Definition: supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

Usage: Water the fields


Synonyms: flush

Definition: flow freely

Usage: The garbage flushed down the river

Similar words: flow, feed, course, run

Definition: move along, of liquids

Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi


Synonyms: flush, sluice

Definition: irrigate with water from a sluice

Usage: sluice the earth

Similar words: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse

Definition: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

Usage: souse water on his hot face


Synonyms: scour, flush, purge

Definition: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

Usage: flush the wound with antibiotics; purge the old gas tank

Similar words: rinse, rinse off

Definition: wash off soap or remaining dirt


Synonyms: level, flush, even, even out

Definition: make level or straight

Usage: level the ground

Similar words: change surface

Definition: undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface


Synonyms: flush

Definition: glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

Usage: the sky flushed with rosy splendor

Similar words: glow

Definition: emit a steady even light without flames

Usage: The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden


Synonyms for (adj) flush

Synonyms: flush

Definition: 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

Similar words: even

Definition: being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)

Usage: an even application of varnish; an even floor; the road was not very even; the picture is even with the window


Synonyms: wealthy, flush, moneyed, affluent, loaded

Definition: 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

Similar words: rich

Definition: possessing material wealth

Usage: her father is extremely rich; many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles


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