flush

Meaning

Noun

A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

Verb

1. To cause to take flight from concealment.
2. To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

Adj

1. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
2. Wealthy or well off.
3. Short for flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
4. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
5. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

Adv

Suddenly and completely.

Verb

1. To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
2. Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
3. To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
4. To cause to blush.
5. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
6. To excite, inflame.
7. To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
8. To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
9. To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
10. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
11. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
12. To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
13. To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
14. To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
15. To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet

Synonyms

blush

😊

redden

colour

level

color

glow

bloom

sluice

even

redness

flat

fly up

douche

go red

burn

colour

crimson

scour

turn red

affluent

even out

wealthy

take wing

soar

bang

rinse

color

rosiness

leach

well-off

boot

👢

irrigate

animate

inundate

feel hot

clean

twitter

excite

loaded

snug

outpouring

take off

hot flash

prime

profuse

water

🚰

peak

purge

flower

🌸

rush

blossom

🌼

start

blushing

efflorescence

gush

moneyed

charge

thrill

wash

🧽

wash down

kick

kindle

cleanse

heyday

plump

directly

dither

drift

drive out

drove

due

dye

elation

elutriate

elutriation

empty out

encourage

equalise

equalize

erst

even up

exaltation

excitement

family

👪

field

flame up

flare

flare up

flatten

flee

flight

✈️

flock

flood

flop

flushed

😳

fluster

forthright

forthrightly

freshness

fume

gaggle

gleam

glint

grist

gulp

harem

herd

hive

horizontal

hose down

hotness

hue

hush

immediately

impassion

incandesce

inflame

intrigue

kennel

knot

🪢

lavish

leaching

leash

lively

lusty

luxuriant

makeups

mantle

mob

murder

mustering

nest

outright

overrun

overwhelm

pack

paddling

pan

pan off

pan out

😡

parliament

petulance

pigmentation

plane

plenitude

plenteous

plenteousness

plentifulness

plentitude

plum

pod

point-blank

pounce

pour on

pregnant

pride

provoke

raft

raise

rampage

replete

reveal

rich

🤑

richness

right

rinse off

rinsing

rookery

rout

ruddiness

ruddle

ruddy

rush out

scavenge

school

🏫

seethe

set off

sheer

shiver

shoal

shower

🚿

shrewdness

shut

skein

skulk

slap

sleuth

sloth

🦥

smolder

smooth

smoothen

smoulder

sounder

span

sprinkle

spurt

square

squarely

stark

stimulate

straight

straighten

straighten out

straight-out

string

🪢

stud

swarm

swollen

team

thorough

thoroughgoing

tiding

tittering

tizzy

flush down

torridity

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

trowel

unabridged

vigor

vigorous

vigour

vitality

washing

wash out

absolute

water jet

wealth

wedge

whelm

harras

bring into the open

clowder

grow red

pour in

scare off

pregnant with

thoro

development

fill the brim

flow rapidly

to be full

flush up

murmuration

sluice down

turn pink

skimcoat

flush coupling

top water

butted joint

flush water

hirsel

profusive

cete

flat connect

flat grafting

wash up

abundance

abundant

actuate

afflux

agitate

amplitude

ardour

army

arouse

ascension

baldly

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

beam

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

blaze

blotch

boar

🐗

bountifulness

bounty

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

butt

cartload

chase

chowder

circle

⭕

cistern

clamour

clear

close

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

coloration

colouration

come back

comfort

company

complete

complexion

concourse

concurrence

conflux

conjunction

copious

corps

countersunk

covey

curb

deluge

depart

direct

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈflʌʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) + guschen (“to gush”). Compare with German flutschen.