单词 | flush |
释义 | flush (once / 171 pages) 1vn 2vn 3adjvadv 4adjn 5n 6adv When you empty something out with a liquid, you flush it. You might also be flush with cash, meaning you have a lot of it. Just don't flush that cash down the toilet! Your face can flush, and the sky can flush at sunset when it glows with shades of pink. You can also use flush as an adjective to mean "lined up" or "level," like when you hang a medicine cabinet in your bathroom, making sure it's flush against the wall. Yet another meaning of a flush is a peak or boom — a professional poker player might describe her period of winning game after game as a flush. WORD FAMILYflush: flushed, flushes, flushing, flushingly USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s the quintessential American mall, once flush with people, now scraping along as national retailers shudder. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Put away the mobile devices and flush the illicit drugs down the drain. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) After her arrival, they began flushing the wound with a saline solution and treating it with antibiotic ointments, but the lesion wouldn’t heal. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1v rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid flush the wound with antibiotics Syn|Hyper purge, scour rinse, rinse off wash off soap or remaining dirt 2v cause to flow or flood with or as if with water flush the meadows Hypo|Hyper perfuse, suffuse cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across perfuseforce a fluid through (a body part or tissue) irrigate, water supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams 3v irrigate with water from a sluice Syn|Hyper sluice douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse cover with liquid; pour liquid onto 4v flow freely The garbage flushed down the river Hypo|Hyper flush down, wash down flow freely course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 5n the swift release of a store of affective force Syn|Hyper bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill excitement, exhilaration the feeling of lively and cheerful joy 6n a sudden rapid flow (as of water) 2he heard the flush of a toilet Syn|Hypo|Hyper gush, outpouring springtide a swelling rush of anything flow, flowing the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) 1v glow or cause to glow with warm color or light the sky flushed with rosy splendor Hyper glow emit a steady even light without flames 2v turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame Syn|Hyper blush, crimson, redden color, colour, discolor, discolour change color, often in an undesired manner 3n sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) Syn|Hyper hot flash symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 4n sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) Syn|Hyper blush inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus 5n a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health 3Syn|Hyper bloom, blush, rosiness good health, healthiness the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease 1adj 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 Syn even being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) 2v make level or straight Syn|Hypo|Hyper even, even out, level grade level to the right gradient strickle, strikesmooth with a strickle stricklelevel off with a strickle in a measuring container aggradebuild up to a level by depositing sediment change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface 3adv in the same plane 4set it flush with the top of the table 1adj having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value a speculator flush with cash Syn affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy rich possessing material wealth 2n the period of greatest prosperity or productivity 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime golden age a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak period, period of time, time period an amount of time n a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit 6Hyper poker hand the 5 cards held in a game of poker adv squarely or solidly hit him flush in the face |
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