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
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
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: 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
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
Definition: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
Usage: flush the wound with antibiotics; purge the old gas tank
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: 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