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flush [fluhsh]

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Main Entry:	flush [fluhsh] Show IPA/flʌʃ/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	flat
Synonyms:	even, horizontal, level, planate, plane, smooth, square, true
Antonyms:	rough, uneven

Main Entry:	flush
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	blush
Synonyms:	bloom, color, freshness, glow, pinkness, redness, rosiness, ruddiness
Antonyms:	pale

Main Entry:	flush
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	become or make pink or red
Synonyms:	blush, burn, color, color up, crimson, flame, glow, go red, mantle, pink, pinken, redden, rose, rouge, suffuse
Antonyms:	pale, uncolor

Example Sentences

Increasingly, parents have seen their children forced to contend with the fear of automatic flush toilets.

He asks us not to flush the toilet at home unless extremely necessary.

As the first flush of liberation begins to fade, differences between the new rulers may soon begin to widen.

Increasingly, parents have seen their children forced to contend with the fear of automatic flush toilets.

He asks us not to flush the toilet at home unless extremely necessary.

As the first flush of liberation begins to fade, differences between the new rulers may soon begin to widen.

Because the fish are bottom dwellers, they might be leaping to flush out their gills.

The organism is also a good swimmer and easily evades the stomach's muscle contractions, which work to flush out other contents.

One will flush the birds out while the other captures them.

Remove pavers, dig up the circles of sod, and set in pavers so they're flush with surrounding sod.

If a building owner decides to go back to flush urinals, he'll blame the plumber if the water isn't already there.

Designers have long favored sleek, flush door handles on concept cars.

He himself chooses not to flush the toilet at his place.

Flats and offices have sprouted all round the city's edge as developers flush with cash from sales.

Force panels slotted flush into the ground of the cheetah's compound are able to carry out minute measurements.

Wind tunnels are expensive, but that doesn't mean flush your funding down the toilet on whim.

Fold edges of pastry under so they're flush with the pan or dish, pressing together any cracks.

It loosens the material so it can be easily washed off with the next flush.

Flush with petrodollars, oil-producing countries have begun a global shopping spree that could increase rapidly.

Sometimes they come in, coughing and sneezing, faces flush from fever.

Its campaign was well organised and flush with cash.

The fish, scientists speculate, could be jumping to avoid predators or to flush out their gills.

These can be added using biosolids, which helps the trees sequester carbon and completes the ecological loop from flush to field.

Screw the top backrest flush with the top ends of the back supports.

Flush toilets swirl human waste down the drain quickly and neatly.

Consider setting aside a little bit of money from the flush semester to use during the leaner one.

The port and claret were laid down in happier times, when cash was flush and planning for the future mattered.

They tried to flush it out with eardrops, but they only managed to drown it.

Consumers who flush unwanted contraceptives down the drain have long been blamed for giving fish more than their fair share of.

When the first bloom flush starts to fade, trim back dahlias and fertilize them to encourage new growth.

The pallid skin will be airbrushed by an artist into the semblance of a flush.

The dummies in the seat belts were also positioned optimally, sitting upright and flush.

Kender expects flush years to continue into the future.

Poker players' chances of being dealt a royal flush are much the same as being struck by lightning.

After dividing into smaller groups, the poachers set fires to flush out animals, then shoot them and smoke the meat.

In an age flush with dubious detox trends, one treatment is getting laid to waste this week: the colon cleanse.

After that initial flush fades, simply nip off spent blooms and the plant will slip into another round of bloom.

By letting the body flush out waste products from exercise more quickly.

If the existing studs are wider than the plate, align the plate so that one of its edges is flush with the studs.

It takes so little to take a great school and flush it down the toilet these days.

Banks are flush with cash, hotels booked up, and the pace of building furious.

Instead of a gallon, only a pint goes down the drain, per automatic flush of our urinals.

About the only water used is that used to flush the toilets.

Retirees flush with retirement cash hop a plane to visit the children and grandchildren spread out around the world.

Bloch might flush out co-conspirators or other useful evidence.

Flush that stuff right out of my system and them replenish my body with great amounts of fresh fruits and veggies.

Flush with their success, union leaders are now hoping to press the government for further concessions.

It offers cold running water, flush toilets, and covered picnic tables.

So you can't have something that is going to be completely flush.

It might not help if you sprinkle while you tinkle, but it does mean that the flush can be a lot more effective.

Water is plentiful again: people can now bathe, shower, flush and even drink city water.

Corporate balance sheets are once again healthy and flush with cash.

The rubbing causes the stunned, sometimes headless bee to flush its toxins.

Many species present with an initial invasive flush which fades over a few years leaving the new species in an equilibrium.

Pressing them down is difficult because the buttons are flush to the base.

Taxing the flush to help out the hard-pressed was a theme.

But the idea of a personal flush toilet offends her.

But few measures, no matter how financially flush their campaigns, can survive an onslaught of negative advertising.

But prior to that period, eat lots of fiber and drink plenty of fluids to flush out your system.

All the candles had burned flush to the ground-another propitious sign.

But that also means that would-be geothermal companies are competing with the flush oil and gas industry for drilling rigs.

Flush with the success of digital phones, they expected the next big thing to emerge the same way.

Save that stuff for the bathroom so you can flush it.

Most westerners are used to the idea of flush toilets and have a hard time conceiving of anything else.

Alternating grey water irrigation with fresh water irrigation can help flush any grey water impurities deep into the.

Flush toxic chemicals and medications down the drain.

Slowly, rocky colonies grew and spread along the seafloor flush with diverse marine life.

Japan was flush when they planned and implemented their earthquake prevention strategy.

Double-digit unemployment is history in the region, and county governments find themselves flush with new revenue.

There were little creeks that flowed into open meadows that had a fresh flush of green or were charred black by fire.

Main Entry:	flush
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	inundate with liquid
Synonyms:	cleanse, douche, drench, eject, expel, flood, hose, rinse, swab, wash

Main Entry:	abounding
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	plentiful
Synonyms:	abundant, bountiful, copious, filled, flush, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, teeming

Main Entry:	affluent
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	wealthy
Synonyms:	flush*, loaded, moneyed, opulent, prosperous, rich, stinking rich, upper class, upscale, well-off, well-to-do
Notes:	to be affluent is to be prosperous or rich while effluent means flowing out or forth
Antonyms:	destitute, impoverished, needy, penniless, poor

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	blush
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pink coloring
Synonyms:	bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, flushing, glow, glowing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy tint, ruddiness, scarlet
Antonyms:	paleness, pallidity, whiteness

Main Entry:	blush
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	become colored, pinken
Synonyms:	color, crimson, flush, glow, have rosy cheeks, mantle, redden, rouge, turn red, turn scarlet
Antonyms:	blanch, pale

Main Entry:	brimming/brimful
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	overflowing; up to the top
Synonyms:	awash, chock-full, crammed, crowded, filled, flush, full, full to the top, jammed, level with, loaded, overfull, packed, running over, stuffed, topfull
Antonyms:	empty, unfilled

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