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flush

noun · verb · adjective · adverb

Simple meaning

A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth.

Pronunciation

Say it like this:

fluhsh
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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈflʌʃ

This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

  1. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

  2. Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

  3. A sudden rapid flow (as of water)

  4. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

  5. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

  6. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.

verb

  1. transitive

    To cause to take flight from concealment.

  2. intransitive

    To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

  3. transitive

    To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

  4. transitive

    Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.

  5. intransitive

    To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.

  6. Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

    “The sky flushed with rosy splendor.”

adjective

  1. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

  2. Wealthy or well off.

  3. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

  4. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.

adverb

  1. Suddenly and completely.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
B2 · Upper Intermediate
Frequency
Moderately Common
Typical Use
Neutral / general English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

Used this way, flush is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It comes across as direct, sometimes bluntly so.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Sudden and forceful
Usage feel
Blunt and forceful

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More ways to use flush

  • “The sky flushed with rosy splendor.”verb

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Common Patterns and Combinations

How this word naturally appears with others.

Sudden / suffusion

hot flushface flushred flush

Particularly

flush toilet

Other combinations

first flushflush rightfull flushslight flush

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Word Family

Related forms, grouped by how they connect.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • flush downverbCompound term

    Flow freely.

  • flush itverbCompound term

    Fail to get a passing grade.

  • flush toiletnounCompound term

    A toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it.

  • four-flushernounCompound term

    A person who tries to bluff other people.

  • four flushnounCompound term

    The act of bluffing in poker.

  • royal flushnounCompound term

    A poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit.

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