flush

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• in the same plane
  • set it flush with the top of the table
    

• squarely or solidly
  • hit him flush in the face
    

Noun

• sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

• 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
    

• 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
    

• a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

• sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

• a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Verb

• cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
  • flush the meadows
    

• irrigate with water from a sluice
  • sluice the earth
    

• rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
  • flush the wound with antibiotics
    
  • purge the old gas tank
    

• make level or straight
  • level the ground
    

• glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
  • the sky flushed with rosy splendor
    

• flow freely
  • The garbage flushed down the river
    

• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  affluent , loaded , moneyed , wealthy , flush(p) , blush , gush , outpouring , bang , boot , charge , rush , thrill , kick , hot flash , bloom , rosiness , flower , prime , peak , heyday , blossom , efflorescence , sluice , scour , purge , level , even out , even , crimson , redden