Dictionary Entry
flush
flush is a 5-letter English word with 38 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, adjective, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 38 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
- 2intransitive verb
To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
- 3intransitive verb
To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- 4intransitive verb
To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
- 5transitive verb
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
- 6transitive verb
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
- 7transitive verb
To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
- 8transitive verb
To excite; to animate; to stir.
- 9transitive verb
To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
- 10noun
A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- 11noun
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- 12noun
Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
- 13noun
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
- 14noun
A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
- 15noun
A hand of cards of the same suit.
- 16adjective
Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- 17adjective
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- 18adjective
Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
- 19adjective
Consisting of cards of one suit.
- 20adverb
So as to be level or even.
- 21noun
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Synonyms
- 22noun
a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
"he heard the flush of a toilet"
"there was a little gush of blood"
Synonyms
- 23noun
the swift release of a store of affective force
"they got a great bang out of it"
"what a boot!"
- 24noun
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- 25noun
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- 26noun
sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- 27noun
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- 28verb
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
- 29verb
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
"flush the meadows"
- 30verb
flow freely
"The garbage flushed down the river"
- 31verb
irrigate with water from a sluice
"sluice the earth"
Synonyms
- 32verb
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"
"purge the old gas tank"
- 33verb
make level or straight
"level the ground"
- 34verb
glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
"the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
- 35adjective
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"
- 36adjective
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
"an affluent banker"
"a speculator flush with cash"
- 37adverb
squarely or solidly
"hit him flush in the face"
- 38adverb
in the same plane
"set it flush with the top of the table"
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