flush

1. 1.

   turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

   Synonymsblushcrimsonredden

   Broaderdiscolor
2. 2.

   flow freely

   “The garbage flushed down the river”

   Broaderrun

   Narrowerwash down
3. 3.

   glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

   “the sky flushed with rosy splendor”

   Broaderglow
4. 4.

   make level or straight

   “level the ground”

   Synonymsleveleven outeven

   Broaderchange surface

   Narrowergradestrickle
5. 5.

   rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

   “flush the wound with antibiotics”

   “purge the old gas tank”

   Synonymsscourpurge

   Broaderrinse
6. 6.

   irrigate with water from a sluice

   “sluice the earth”

   Synonymssluice

   Broaderdrench
7. 7.

   cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

   “flush the meadows”

   Broaderwater

   Narrowersuffuseperfuse

1. 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”

   Similareven
2. 2.

   having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

   “an affluent banker”

   “a speculator flush with cash”

   “not merely rich but loaded”

   “moneyed aristocrats”

   “wealthy corporations”

   “a substantial family”

   Synonymsaffluentloadedmoneyedwealthysubstantial

   Similarrich

1. 1.

   squarely or solidly

   “hit him flush in the face”
2. 2.

   in the same plane

   “set it flush with the top of the table”

Other forms of flush

plural

flushes·

past tense

flushed·

present participle

flushing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flush

What does flush mean?

flush means "the period of greatest prosperity or productivity". That is the primary sense; the word has 18 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flush?

flush has 1 syllable: flush. In IPA it is /ˈflʌʃ/.

What is another word for flush?

Close synonyms include flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flush a common word?

flush is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.