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| 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. 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. (state) | 3. 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) | 4. 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) | 5. 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) | 6. 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" |
| n. (act) | 7. 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) | 8. 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) | 9. 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) | 10. 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) | 11. 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) | 12. 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) | 13. 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) | 14. 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. | 15. 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. | 16. 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. | 17. flush | squarely or solidly.; "hit him flush in the face" |
| adv. | 18. flush | in the same plane.; "set it flush with the top of the table" |
| water | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. h2o, water | binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent. |
| ~ tear, teardrop | a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.; "his story brought tears to her eyes" |
| ~ perspiration, sudor, sweat | salty fluid secreted by sweat glands.; "sweat poured off his brow" |
| ~ tap water | water directly from the spigot. |
| ~ body of water, water | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean).; "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" |
| ~ flake, snowflake | a crystal of snow. |
| ~ diamond dust, frost mist, frost snow, ice crystal, ice needle, poudrin, snow mist | small crystals of ice. |
| ~ binary compound | chemical compound composed of only two elements. |
| ~ atomic number 1, h, hydrogen | a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe. |
| ~ atomic number 8, o, oxygen | a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust. |
| ~ bath water | water used for a bath. |
| ~ dishwater | water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed. |
| ~ distilled water | water that has been purified by distillation. |
| ~ holy water | water that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic purification. |
| ~ ground water, spring water, well water | underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks. |
| ~ hard water | water that contains mineral salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soap. |
| ~ ice, water ice | water frozen in the solid state.; "Americans like ice in their drinks" |
| ~ limewater | solution of calcium hydroxide in water used as an antacid. |
| ~ liquid | fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume. |
| ~ meltwater | melted snow or ice. |
| ~ brine, saltwater, seawater | water containing salts.; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" |
| ~ fresh water, freshwater | water that is not salty. |
| ~ slush | partially melted snow. |
| ~ soft water | water that is not hard (does not contain mineral salts that interfere with the formation of lather with soap). |
| ~ bilge, bilge water | water accumulated in the bilge of a ship. |
| ~ water of crystallisation, water of crystallization, water of hydration | the water present in hydrated compounds. |
| n. (object) | 2. body of water, water | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean).; "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" |
| ~ thing | a separate and self-contained entity. |
| ~ backwater | a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam.; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos" |
| ~ bay, embayment | an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf. |
| ~ channel | a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels.; "the ship went aground in the channel" |
| ~ drink | any large deep body of water.; "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued" |
| ~ estuary | the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix. |
| ~ flowage | a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area.; "many campsites were located near the flowage" |
| ~ crossing, ford | a shallow area in a stream that can be forded. |
| ~ gulf | an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay. |
| ~ high sea, international waters | the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation. |
| ~ hydrosphere | the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor. |
| ~ inlet, recess | an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands). |
| ~ lake | a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land. |
| ~ lake | a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land. |
| ~ briny, main | any very large body of (salt) water. |
| ~ mid-water | the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom.; "many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters" |
| ~ ocean | a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. |
| ~ ocean | a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. |
| ~ offing | the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area.; "there was a ship in the offing" |
| ~ polynya | a stretch of open water surrounded by ice (especially in Arctic seas). |
| ~ puddle, pool | a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid.; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" |
| ~ river | a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek).; "the river was navigable for 50 miles" |
| ~ sea | a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land. |
| ~ seven seas | an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world.; "the old salt had sailed the seven seas" |
| ~ shallow, shoal | a stretch of shallow water. |
| ~ sound | a large ocean inlet or deep bay.; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast" |
| ~ stream, watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth. |
| ~ earth's surface, surface | the outermost level of the land or sea.; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" |
| ~ territorial waters | the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction. |
| ~ waterfall, falls | a steep descent of the water of a river. |
| ~ waterway | a navigable body of water. |
| ~ h2o, water | binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent. |
| n. (substance) | 3. water | once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles). |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ element | one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe.; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. water, water supply, water system | a facility that provides a source of water.; "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water" |
| ~ facility, installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry.; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" |
| ~ infrastructure, base | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.; "the industrial base of Japan" |
| ~ artificial lake, man-made lake, reservoir | lake used to store water for community use. |
| ~ water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water. |
| n. (substance) | 5. pee, piddle, piss, urine, water, weewee | liquid excretory product.; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" |
| ~ body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body. |
| n. (food) | 6. water | a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants.; "he asked for a drink of water" |
| ~ food, nutrient | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. |
| ~ nutrient | any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis. |
| ~ branch water | pure natural water from a stream or brook; often distinguished from soda water. |
| ~ spring water | water from a spring. |
| ~ drinking water | water suitable for drinking. |
| ~ liquid | a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure. |
| v. (change) | 7. irrigate, water | supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams.; "Water the fields" |
| ~ wet | cause to become wet.; "Wet your face" |
| ~ hose, hose down | water with a hose.; "hose the lawn" |
| ~ flush | cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.; "flush the meadows" |
| ~ hush | run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals. |
| v. (possession) | 8. water | provide with water.; "We watered the buffalo" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (body) | 9. water | secrete or form water, as tears or saliva.; "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered" |
| ~ secrete, release | generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids.; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" |
| v. (change) | 10. water | fill with tears.; "His eyes were watering" |
| ~ fill, fill up | become full.; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly" |
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