Flush

  • 31flush — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ faint, slight ▪ deep, pink, red ▪ sudden ▪ a sudden flush of rising excitement …

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  • 32flush — 1 noun 1 (singular) a red colour that appears on your face or body, especially because you are embarrassed, ill, or excited: “How can you tell?” he said as a flush crept up his neck. see also: hot flush 2 a flush of pride/embarrassment etc a… …

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  • 33flush — 1. v. & n. v. 1 intr. a blush, redden (he flushed with embarrassment). b glow with a warm colour (sky flushed pink). 2 tr. (usu. as flushed adj.) cause to glow or blush (often foll. by with : flushed with pride). 3 tr. a cleanse (a drain,… …

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  • 34Flush — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Flush (homonymie). Publié en 1933, Flush (titre original Flush: A Biography) est moins un roman de Virginia Woolf qu une biographie fictive de la poétesse Elizabeth Barrett Browning vue par son cocker. Écrit… …

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  • 35flush — {{11}}flush (adj.) 1550s, perfect, faultless; c.1600, abundant; plentifully supplied (with money, etc.), perhaps from FLUSH (Cf. flush) (v.) through the notion of a river running full, hence level with its banks. Meaning even, level is from 1620s …

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  • 36Flush — (1) A redness of the skin, typically over the cheeks or neck. A flush is usually temporary and brought on by excitement, exercise, fever, or embarrassment. Flushing is an involuntary (uncontrollable) response of the nervous system leading to… …

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  • 37flush — 1. adjective /ˈflʌʃ/ a) smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface. b) wealthy or well off. He just got a bonus so hes flush today …

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  • 38flush — 01. We heard the sound of a toilet [flushing], and then a door opening and closing. 02. I don t like to waste water by [flushing] the toilet just for a dirty Kleenex. 03. The young girl s face [flushed] with embarrassment when her new boyfriend… …

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  • 39flush — bead·flush; flush; flush·er; flush·ness; flush·om·e·ter; flush·ing·ly; …

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  • 40flush — I 1. verb 1) Shane flushed in embarrassment Syn: blush, redden, go pink, go red, go crimson, go scarlet, color (up) Ant: pale 2) fruit helps to flush toxins from the body Syn …

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