flushing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
    crimson; blush; redden; flush.
    • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
  2. verb flow freely
    flush.
    • The garbage flushed down the river
  3. verb glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
    flush.
    • the sky flushed with rosy splendor
  4. verb make level or straight
    even; even out; level; flush.
    • level the ground
  5. verb rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    purge; scour; flush.
    • flush the wound with antibiotics
    • purge the old gas tank
  6. verb irrigate with water from a sluice
    sluice; flush.
    • sluice the earth
  7. verb cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
    flush.
    • flush the meadows

WordNet


Flush"ing noun
Definitions
  1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the Eng.
  2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.

Webster 1913