flush

flush has 38 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. i.. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
• v. i.. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
• v. i.. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. i.. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
• v. t.. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
• v. t.. To excite; to animate; to stir.
• v. t.. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
• n.. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n.. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
• n.. 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.