flush

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Though sure, if they flush in time maybe the police lose out.

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Quick take

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flush.

noun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

See also: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence

noun

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

noun

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

noun

a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

noun

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"

See also: bang, boot, charge, rush, thrill, kick

noun

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"

noun

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

verb

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

verb

flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"

verb

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

verb

make level or straight; "level the ground"

verb

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

verb

irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

verb

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

adjective

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"

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"

See also: affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy

adverb

squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"

adverb

in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"

Example sentences

Though sure, if they flush in time maybe the police lose out.

LA is flush with such businesses already; I've worked for a few of them.

If they want to flush money down the toilet they might as well engage users in the process right?

When he put the piece up and saw it didn't fit flush, he apologized and said I was right after all. I then told him that was the last piece of wood.

Want them to manually flush their resolvers out of the normal DNS TTL protocol?

Certain FireWire drives have also been known to ignore the request to flush their buffered data.

These include failing to flush toilets after use, littering, jaywalking, the possession of pornography, and the sale of chewing gum.

So I basically upped the price I was offering to purchase avian meat above theirs - heck - I was flush with funds from last month so I figured I could out buy them.

When fed with a slow trickle of water, it will empty itself periodically, and formed the basis of automatic-flush urinals before the electronic valves became commonplace.

How many billions of dollars are these companies going to flush down the drain on legal fees that could be better spent doing just about anything else?>When Wired visited Rockstar's Ontario headquarters, it found 10 reverse-engineering experts, working daily to take apart products and find patent infringement.>With just a few dozen employees, Rockstar is hoping to convince more than 100 technology companies to pay it patent licensing fees for a huge array of products.