What does Flush Mean?

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
  • the swift release of a store of affective force
  • a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
  • sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  • the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
  • a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
  • sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
Definition as Verb
  • flow freely
  • glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
  • cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
  • turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • make level or straight
  • rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
  • irrigate with water from a sluice
Definition as Adjective
  • of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
  • having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
Definition as Adverb
  • squarely or solidly
  • in the same plane

Examples

  • "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
  • "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"; "a substantial family"
  • "hit him flush in the face"
  • "set it flush with the top of the table"
  • "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
  • "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
  • "The garbage flushed down the river"
  • "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
  • "flush the meadows"
  • "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
  • "level the ground"
  • "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
  • "sluice the earth"

Part of Speech

Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb