| blush | | |
| n. (state) | 1. bloom, blush, flush, rosiness | a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health. |
| ~ good health, healthiness | the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease. |
| n. (act) | 2. blush, flush | sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty). |
| ~ inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus. |
| v. (body) | 3. blush, crimson, flush, redden | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| v. (change) | 4. blush | become rosy or reddish.; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air" |
| ~ redden | turn red or redder.; "The sky reddened" |
| flush | | |
| n. (time) | 1. bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime | the period of greatest prosperity or productivity. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| ~ golden age | a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak.; "it was the golden age of cinema" |
| n. (state) | 2. flush, hot flash | sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders). |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| n. (group) | 3. flush | a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit. |
| ~ poker hand | the 5 cards held in a game of poker. |
| n. (feeling) | 4. bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill | the swift release of a store of affective force.; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" |
| ~ excitement, exhilaration | the feeling of lively and cheerful joy.; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed" |
| n. (event) | 5. flush, gush, outpouring | a sudden rapid flow (as of water).; "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words" |
| ~ flow, flowing | the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases). |
| ~ springtide | a swelling rush of anything.; "he rose on the springtide of prosperity" |
| v. (change) | 6. flush | flow freely.; "The garbage flushed down the river" |
| ~ flush down, wash down | flow freely.; "The body washed down the river" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| v. (perception) | 7. flush | glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" |
| ~ glow | emit a steady even light without flames.; "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden" |
| v. (contact) | 8. even, even out, flush, level | make level or straight.; "level the ground" |
| ~ change surface | undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface. |
| ~ grade | level to the right gradient. |
| ~ strickle, strike | smooth with a strickle.; "strickle the grain in the measure" |
| ~ strickle | level off with a strickle in a measuring container.; "strickle sand" |
| v. (change) | 9. flush, purge, scour | rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" |
| ~ rinse, rinse off | wash off soap or remaining dirt. |
| v. (change) | 10. flush, sluice | irrigate with water from a sluice.; "sluice the earth" |
| ~ souse, soak, dowse, drench, sop, douse | cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.; "souse water on his hot face" |
| v. (change) | 11. flush | cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.; "flush the meadows" |
| ~ irrigate, water | supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams.; "Water the fields" |
| ~ suffuse, perfuse | cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across.; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" |
| ~ perfuse | force a fluid through (a body part or tissue).; "perfuse a liver with a salt solution" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| adj. | 12. flush | 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" |
| ~ 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).; "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window" |
| adj. | 13. affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy | 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" |
| ~ rich | possessing material wealth.; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles" |
| adv. | 14. flush | squarely or solidly.; "hit him flush in the face" |
| adv. | 15. flush | in the same plane.; "set it flush with the top of the table" |
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