Definition: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: flush
Definition: a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
Main entry: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness
Definition: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Definition: sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
Main entry: peak, prime, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, heyday, flower, flush
Definition: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Main entry: 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
Main entry: flush
Definition: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
Usage: flush the meadows
Main entry: flush
Definition: flow freely
Usage: The garbage flushed down the river
Definition: irrigate with water from a sluice
Usage: sluice the earth
Main entry: scour, flush, purge
Definition: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
Usage: flush the wound with antibiotics; purge the old gas tank
Main entry: level, flush, even, even out
Definition: make level or straight
Usage: level the ground
Main entry: flush
Definition: glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
Usage: the sky flushed with rosy splendor
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: flush
Definition: squarely or solidly
Usage: hit him flush in the face
Main entry: flush
Definition: in the same plane
Usage: set it flush with the top of the table