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Adjective flush has 2 senses
- flush - of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
Antonym: uneven (indirect, via even)
- affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy - having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
Antonym: poor (indirect, via rich)
Adverbial flush has 2 senses
- flush - squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
- flush - in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"
Noun flush has 7 senses
- flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush - the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
--1 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--1 has particulars: golden age
- bloom, blush, flush, rosiness - a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
--2 is a kind of good health, healthiness
- hot flash, flush - sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
--3 is a kind of symptom
- flush - a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
--4 is a kind of poker hand
- bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick - the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
--5 is a kind of exhilaration, excitement
- flush, gush, outpouring - a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
--6 is a kind of flow, flowing
--6 has particulars: springtide
- blush, flush - sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
--7 is a kind of reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
Verb flush has 7 senses
- blush, crimson, flush, redden - turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
--1 is one way to discolor, discolour, colour, color
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- flush - flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
--2 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
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- flush, level, even out, even - make level or straight; "level the ground"
--3 is one way to change surface
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- buff, burnish, furbish, flush - polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
--4 is one way to polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
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- flush, scour, purge - rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
--5 is one way to rinse, rinse off
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- sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
--6 is one way to drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
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- flush - cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
--7 is one way to water, irrigate
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