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

1. intransitive verb. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
2. intransitive verb. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
3. intransitive verb. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
4. intransitive verb. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive verb. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
7. transitive verb. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
8. transitive verb. To excite; to animate; to stir.
9. transitive verb. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
10. noun. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
11. noun. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
12. noun. 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.
13. noun. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
14. noun. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
15. noun. A hand of cards of the same suit.
16. adjective. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
17. adjective. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
18. adjective. Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
19. adjective. Consisting of cards of one suit.
20. adverb. So as to be level or even.
21. noun. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

    Synonyms: blush

22. noun. a sudden rapid flow (as of water)

    "he heard the flush of a toilet"

    "there was a little gush of blood"

    Synonyms: gush, outpouring

23. noun. the swift release of a store of affective force

    "they got a great bang out of it"

    "what a boot!"

    Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill

24. noun. a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
25. noun. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

    Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness

26. noun. sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
27. noun. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

    Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime

28. verb. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

    Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden

29. verb. cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

    "flush the meadows"

30. verb. flow freely

    "The garbage flushed down the river"

31. verb. irrigate with water from a sluice

    "sluice the earth"

    Synonyms: sluice

32. verb. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

    "flush the wound with antibiotics"

    "purge the old gas tank"

    Synonyms: purge, scour

33. verb. make level or straight

    "level the ground"

    Synonyms: even, level

34. verb. glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

    "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

35. adjective. 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"

36. adjective. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

    "an affluent banker"

    "a speculator flush with cash"

    Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy

37. adverb. squarely or solidly

    "hit him flush in the face"

38. adverb. in the same plane

    "set it flush with the top of the table"

Synonyms

blush, gush, outpouring, bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill, bloom, rosiness, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime, crimson, redden, sluice, purge, scour, even, level

Common word forms

flushed, flusher, flushes, flushest, flushing, flushable, flushness

Words from these letters

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