| 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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