FLUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flush mean? 

• FLUSH (noun)
  The noun FLUSH has 7 senses:

1. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
2. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
3. sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
4. a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
5. the swift release of a store of affective force
6. a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
7. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

  Familiarity information: FLUSH used as a noun is common.

• FLUSH (adjective)
  The adjective FLUSH has 2 senses:

1. of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
2. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

  Familiarity information: FLUSH used as an adjective is rare.

• FLUSH (verb)
  The verb FLUSH has 7 senses:

1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
2. flow freely
3. make level or straight
4. polish and make shiny
5. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
6. irrigate with water from a sluice
7. cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

  Familiarity information: FLUSH used as a verb is common.

• FLUSH (adverb)
  The adverb FLUSH has 2 senses:

1. squarely or solidly
2. in the same plane

  Familiarity information: FLUSH used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUSH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

flush; efflorescence; heyday; peak; prime; blossom; flower; bloom

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flush"):

golden age (a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak)

Sense 2

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

rosiness; blush; flush; bloom

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)

Sense 3

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hot flash; flush

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Sense 4

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

poker hand (the 5 cards held in a game of poker)

Sense 5

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The swift release of a store of affective force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

thrill; kick; boot; bang; flush; rush; charge

Context examples:

they got a great bang out of it / what a boot! / he got a quick rush from injecting heroin / he does it for kicks

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

excitement; exhilaration (the feeling of lively and cheerful joy)

Sense 6

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A sudden rapid flow (as of water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

gush; outpouring; flush

Context examples:

he heard the flush of a toilet / there was a little gush of blood / she attacked him with an outpouring of words

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flush"):

springtide (a swelling rush of anything)

Sense 7

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blush; flush

Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):

inborn reflex; innate reflex; instinctive reflex; physiological reaction; reflex; unconditioned reflex (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus)

• FLUSH (adjective)

Sense 1

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane

Context examples:

a door flush with the wall / the bottom of the window is flush with the floor

Similar:

even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))

Sense 2

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

Synonyms:

wealthy; affluent; flush; moneyed; loaded

Context examples:

an affluent banker / a speculator flush with cash / not merely rich but loaded / moneyed aristocrats / wealthy corporations

Similar:

rich (possessing material wealth)

• FLUSH (verb)

Sense 1

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

redden; flush; crimson; blush

Context example:

The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Flow freely

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The garbage flushed down the river

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):

flush down; wash down (flow freely)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Make level or straight

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

even; even out; flush; level

Context example:

level the ground

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):

grade (level to the right gradient)

strickle; strike (smooth with a strickle)

strickle (level off with a strickle in a measuring container)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Polish and make shiny

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

furbish; burnish; buff; flush

Context examples:

buff the wooden floors / buff my shoes

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen (make (a surface) shine)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

scour; flush; purge

Context examples:

flush the wound with antibiotics / purge the old gas tank

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

rinse; rinse off (wash off soap or remaining dirt)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 6

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Irrigate with water from a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

sluice; flush

Context example:

sluice the earth

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

flush the meadows

Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):

irrigate; water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)

Cause:

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):

perfuse; suffuse (cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across)

perfuse (force a fluid through (a body part or tissue))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• FLUSH (adverb)

Sense 1

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Squarely or solidly

Context example:

hit him flush in the face

Sense 2

flush [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

In the same plane

Context example:

set it flush with the top of the table