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(of a person's skin) Red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion,
  1. (of a person's skin) Red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion
    • - her flushed cheeks
  2. (of a person) Excited or elated by something
    • - flushed withsuccess, I was getting into my stride
  1. having the pinkish flush of health
  2. crimson: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
  3. flush(p): 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"
  4. (flush) blush: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
  5. (flush) flower: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
  6. (flush) squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
  7. For a person to flush is to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions. ...
  8. The following is a list of episodes for Dark Angel, an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television program created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. Dark Angel premiered in the United States and Canada on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, but was canceled after two seasons. ...
  9. (Flush (Brian Head Welch song)) "Flush" is a song by American rock musician Brian "Head" Welch that was released as the first single from his debut album, Save Me from Myself, on July 8, 2008 exclusively on the iTunes Music Store.
  10. (Flush (cards)) A flush is a hand of playing cards where all cards are of the same suit.
  11. (Flush (novel)) {{Unreferenced|daoooooo {{Infobox Book | | name = Flush | title_orig | translator = | image = http://hilaryclinger.wikispaces.com/file/view/flush. ...
  12. (Flush (poker)) In poker, players construct hands of five cards according to predetermined rules, which vary according to which variant of poker is being played. ...
  13. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc
  14. (flush) A cleansing with plenty of fluid; Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet; A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit; To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid; Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing lots of water; To cause to take flight from ...
  15. (Flush) A hand consisting exclusively of suited cards, e.g. 2 ♦ 4 ♦ 5 ♦ 8 ♦ J ♦.
  16. (Flush) Cleanse a muscle by increasing the blood supply to it, removing toxins left in muscle by exertion.
  17. (Flush) To set lines of copy so that they are aligned perpendicular at a right margin (flush right) or left margin (flush left). When the copy is flushed both right and left (full flush), we more commonly say it is justified.
  18. (flush) Even with, usually refers to typeset copy.
  19. (flush) The act of emptying a buffer, often before it's full.
  20. (Flush) 1. To open a cold-water tap to clear out all the water which may have been sitting for a long time in the pipes. In new homes, to flush a system means to send large volumes of water gushing through the unused pipes to remove loose particles of solder and flux. 2. ...
  21. (flush) the freshly-picked tea leaves, typically comprising the bud and first two leaves of the growing tea shoot.
  22. (Flush) To drive birds from cover, to force them to take flight; to spring.
  23. (Flush) When all five cards in your hand have a common suit, you have a flush. The flush with the highest card not in common is better, so AK873 of spades is a better flush than AK872 of diamonds. A flush ranks between a straight and a full house.
  24. (Flush) Surfaces in the same plane.
  25. (Flush) The new growth at the end of a branch or shoot. Also refers to the harvest time - first flush is early, second flush is in late spring, etc.