flush Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
    prime; flower; blossom; efflorescence; peak; bloom; heyday.
  2. noun a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
    rosiness; blush; bloom.
  3. noun sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
    hot flash.
  4. noun a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
  5. noun the swift release of a store of affective force
    rush; thrill; boot; charge; bang; kick.
    • they got a great bang out of it
    • what a boot!
    • he got a quick rush from injecting heroin
    • he does it for kicks
  6. noun a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
    outpouring; gush.
    • he heard the flush of a toilet
    • there was a little gush of blood
    • she attacked him with an outpouring of words
  7. noun sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
    blush.
  8. verb turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
    crimson; blush; redden.
    • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
  9. verb flow freely
    • The garbage flushed down the river
  10. verb glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
    • the sky flushed with rosy splendor
  11. verb make level or straight
    even; even out; level.
    • level the ground
  12. verb rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    purge; scour.
    • flush the wound with antibiotics
    • purge the old gas tank
  13. verb irrigate with water from a sluice
    sluice.
    • sluice the earth
  14. verb cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
    • flush the meadows
  15. adjective satellite 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
  16. adjective satellite having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
    moneyed; loaded; wealthy; affluent.
    • an affluent banker
    • a speculator flush with cash
    • not merely rich but loaded
    • moneyed aristocrats
    • wealthy corporations
  17. adverb squarely or solidly
    • hit him flush in the face
  18. adverb in the same plane
    • set it flush with the top of the table

WordNet

Flush intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. *84.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Flushed ; present participle & verbal noun Flushing
Definitions
  1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
    The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle.
    It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.
  2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
  3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
    In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.
  4. To star up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
    Flushing from one spray unto another. W. Browne.
Flush transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
  2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
    Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay.
    Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.
  3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
    How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.
  4. To excite; to animate; to stir.
    Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.
  5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares.
Flush noun
Definitions
  1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
    In manner of a wave or flush. Ray.
  2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
    The flush of angered shame. Tennyson.
  3. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
  4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
  5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
  6. From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux. A hand of cards of the same suit.
Flush adjective
Definitions
  1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
    With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak.
  2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
    Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.
  3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
  4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit.
Flush adverb
Definitions
  1. So as to be level or even.

Webster 1913