1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
   "The girl flushed when a young man whistled as she walked by";
   - blush, crimson, redden
    
2. Glow or cause to glow with warm colour or light
   "the sky flushed with rosy splendour"
    
3. Cause to flow through something
   "The garbage flushed down the river"
    
4. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
   "flush the wound with antibiotics";
   - scour, purge
    
5. Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
   "flush the meadows"
    
6. Irrigate with water from a sluice
   "They flushed the fields with fresh water";
   - sluice
    
7. Make level or straight
   "The carpenter flushed the joints of the cabinet";
   - level, even out, even

1. Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment, guilt, shame or modesty)
   "Her flush revealed her embarrassment at the compliment";
   - blush
    
2. A rosy colour (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
   "The flush of excitement was visible on her face";
   - bloom, blush, rosiness
    
3. Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
   "She experienced frequent flushes during her menopausal transition";
   - hot flash [N. Amer], hot flush [Brit]
    
4. A sudden rapid flow (as of water)
   "he heard the flush of a toilet";
   - gush, outpouring
    
5. A sudden pleasurable excitement
   "She felt a flush of pride at her daughter's achievement";
   - bang, charge, rush, thrill, kick, buzz [informal]
    
6. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
   "The 1920s were the flush of jazz music in America";
   - flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence
    
7. A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
   "He won the pot with a flush of diamonds"

1. Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
   "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
    
2. Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
   "The flush elite lived in mansions on the hill";
   - affluent, loaded [informal], moneyed, wealthy, substantial, minted [Brit, informal], monied

1. Squarely or solidly
   "hit him flush in the face"
    
2. In the same plane
   "set it flush with the top of the table"

Derived forms: flushed, flushing, flushes

See also: even, rich

Type of: change surface, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], course, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], douse, dowse, drench, excitement, exhilaration, feed, flow, flowing, glow, good health, healthiness, inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, irrigate, period, period of time, physiological reaction, poker hand, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, rinse, rinse off, run, soak, sop, souse, symptom, time period, time span, unconditioned reflex, water

Encyclopedia: Flush, Kansas