Sounds | flah'sh | |
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Rhymes | blush ... underbrush: 17 rhymes with ahsh... |
Meaning | Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane. | |
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Broader | even | Level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture |
Spanish | alineado |
Meaning | Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value. | |
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Example | "a speculator flush with cash" | |
Synonyms | affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy, substantial | |
Broader | rich | possessing material wealth |
Spanish | acaudalado, adinerado, afluente, forrado, próspero, pudiente, rico | |
Catalan | acabalat, adinerat, amonedat, opulent, ric | |
Nouns | flush | the period of greatest prosperity or productivity |
Meaning | The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. | |
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Synonyms | flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence | |
Narrower | golden age | A time period when some activity or skill was at its peak |
Broader | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
Spanish | apogeo, auge, flor | |
Catalan | apogeu, auge | |
Adjectives | flush | having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value |
Meaning | A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health. | |
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Synonyms | bloom, blush, rosiness | |
Broader | good health, healthiness | The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease |
Spanish | lozanía | |
Catalan | rubor | |
Verbs | flush | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
Meaning | sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders). | |
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Synonym | hot flash | |
Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
Spanish | sofocón | |
Catalan | fogot |
Meaning | A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit. | |
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Broader | poker hand | The 5 cards held in a game of poker |
Meaning | The swift release of a store of affective force. | |
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Synonyms | bang, boot, charge, rush, thrill, kick | |
Broader | exhilaration, excitement | The feeling of lively and cheerful joy |
Spanish | emoción, entusiasmo, excitación | |
Catalan | emoció, entusiasme, excitació |
Meaning | A sudden rapid flow (as of water). | |
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Example | "he heard the flush of a toilet" | |
Synonyms | gush, outpouring | |
Narrower | springtide | A swelling rush of anything |
Broader | flow, flowing | The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids / liquids or gases) |
Spanish | borbotón, oleada, oleaje | |
Verbs | flush | flow freely |
flush | irrigate with water from a sluice | |
flush | cause to flow or flood with or as if with water |
Meaning | sudden reddening / reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty). | |
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Synonym | blush | |
Broader | reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction | An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
Verbs | flush | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
Meaning | squarely or solidly. | |
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Example | "hit him flush in the face" | |
Spanish | de lleno |
Meaning | In the same plane. | |
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Example | "set it flush with the top of the table" |
Meaning | Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonyms | blush, crimson, redden | |
Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color | change color, often in an undesired manner |
Spanish | abochornar, arrebolar, enrojecer, rosarse, ruborizarse, sonrojarse, sonrojar, sonrosarse | |
Catalan | encarnar, enrogir-se, enrojolar-se, envermellir-se, envermellonar, ruboritzar-se | |
Nouns | flush | sudden reddening / reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) |
flush | a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health |
Meaning | Flow freely. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
Example | "The garbage flushed down the river" | |
Narrower | wash down, flush down | Flow freely |
Broader | run, flow, feed, course | Move along, of liquids / liquids |
Nouns | flush | a sudden rapid flow (as of water) |
Meaning | Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s something | |
Example | "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" | |
Broader | glow | emit a steady even light without flames |
Meaning | make level or straight. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | level, even out, even | |
Narrower | grade | Level to the right gradient |
strickle, strike | Smooth with a strickle | |
strickle | level off with a strickle in a measuring container | |
Broader | change surface | Undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface |
Spanish | allanar, igualar, nivelar, uniformar | |
Catalan | allisar, anivellar, aplanar, esplanar, igualar, tapar sots, terraplenar |
Meaning | rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid / liquid. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
Example | "flush the wound with antibiotics" | |
Synonyms | scour, purge | |
Broader | rinse, rinse off | wash off soap or remaining dirt |
Catalan | netejar |
Meaning | irrigate with water from a sluice. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | sluice | |
Broader | drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse | Cover with liquid / liquid |
Spanish | regar | |
Catalan | regar | |
Nouns | flush | a sudden rapid flow (as of water) |
Meaning | Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "flush the meadows" | |
Cause to | run, flow, feed, course | Move along, of liquids / liquids |
Narrower | perfuse | Force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) |
suffuse, perfuse | Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | |
Broader | water, irrigate | Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams |
Spanish | hacer fluir | |
Nouns | flush | a sudden rapid flow (as of water) |
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