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Flush

noun

1.

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime.

2.

A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health. Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness.

3.

Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders). Synonym: hot flash.

4.

A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit.

5.

The swift release of a store of affective force. Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill. "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"

6.

A sudden rapid flow (as of water). Synonyms: gush, outpouring. "There was a little gush of blood" , "She attacked him with an outpouring of words"

7.

Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty). Synonym: blush.

verb

(past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)

1.

Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame. Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden.

2.

Flow freely.

3.

Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.

4.

Make level or straight. Synonyms: even, even out, level.

5.

Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid. Synonyms: purge, scour. "Purge the old gas tank"

6.

Irrigate with water from a sluice. Synonym: sluice.

7.

Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.

adjective

1.

Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane. "The bottom of the window is flush with the floor"

2.

Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value. Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy. "A speculator flush with cash" , "Not merely rich but loaded" , "Moneyed aristocrats" , "Wealthy corporations"

adverb

1.

Squarely or solidly.

2.

In the same plane.

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"Flush" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the merits of either, to both sexes, were made one. Colney Durance (practically cynical when not fancifully, men said) stood by Skepsey at the altar. His published exercises in Satire produce a flush of the article in the Reviews of his books. Meat and wine in turn fence the Hymen beckoning Priscilla and Mr. Pempton. The forms of Religion more than the Channel's division of races keep Louise de Seilles and Mr. Peridon asunder: and in the uniting of them Colney is interested, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... were compensations; and the General was hungry. His manner towards young Langrishe had an air of fatherly kindness. There was a gratified flush on the young fellow's lean, dark cheek. What was it the General had heard about Langrishe? Oh, yes, that he had had rough luck—that his old uncle. Sir Peter—the General remembered him for a curmudgeon—had married and had a son, after rearing the young fellow ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... gleams like water-shadows shone, Before me lay: Beneath this dazzling vault— I felt, but cannot paint the splendour there! Glory, beyond the wonder of the heart To dream, around interminably blazed. A spread of fields more beautiful than skies Flush'd with the flowery radiance of the west; Valleys in greenest glory, deck'd with trees That trembled music to the ambrosial airs That chanted round them,—vein'd with glossy streams, That gush'd, like feelings from a raptured soul: Such was the scenery;—with garden walks, Delight of angels ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 337, October 25, 1828. • Various

... flush of dawn the little train of pack mules, with the rations for the beleaguered command at Sunset Pass, was started on its stony path. Once out of the valley of the Beaver it must clamber over range after range and stumble through deep and tortuous canons. A road there was—the old trail by Snow ...

— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King

... The flush which had warmed his sallow skin subsided as his passion died out. He had worked himself into a condition of righteous indignation, but the calm politeness of Challis rebuked him. If Crashaw prided himself on his devotion to the Church, he did ...

— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford

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