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单词 flush
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flushverb

uk/flʌʃ/us/flʌʃ/

flush verb (BECOME RED)

[ I ] When you flush, you become red in the face, especially as a result of strong emotions, heat, or alcohol:

She flushed with pleasure as she accepted the prize.
The champagne had caused his face to flush.

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The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • wan
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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Expressing and showing feelings

flush verb (TOILET)

[ I or T ] If you flush a toilet, or if a toilet flushes, its contents empty and it fills with water again:

My children never flush the toilet after them.
I can't get the toilet to flush.
flush sth down the toilet

to get rid of something by putting it in the toilet and operating the toilet:

I tend to flush old medicines down the toilet.

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Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage

  • ballcock
  • bleed
  • cesspit
  • cistern
  • conduit
  • culvert
  • leakage
  • mixer tap
  • overflow
  • pipeline
  • piping
  • plughole
  • plumb
  • plunger
  • siphon
  • standpipe
  • stopcock
  • tubing
  • U-bend
  • washer

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Parts of buildings: the toilet
Removing and getting rid of things

Phrasal verb(s)

flush sb/sth out
flush sb out
flush sth out

flushadjective

uk/flʌʃ/us/flʌʃ/

flush adjective (LEVEL)

at the same level as another surface:

I want the light fittings to be flush with the ceiling.

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Straight, even and level

  • be (as) flat as a pancake idiom
  • clean-cut
  • cleanly
  • consistency
  • even
  • flat
  • flatness
  • level
  • peg
  • plane
  • rhythm
  • seamless
  • sleek
  • smooth
  • square
  • steady
  • straight
  • true

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flush adjective (RICH)

[ after verb ] informal having a lot of money:

I've just been paid so I'm feeling flush.

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Rich and wealthy

  • bazillionaire
  • be rolling in it idiom
  • born
  • clover
  • comfort
  • deep
  • deep pockets idiom
  • easy
  • feather
  • feather your own nest idiom
  • landed
  • landowner
  • live high on/off the hog idiom
  • live off the fat of the land idiom
  • on easy street idiom
  • privilege
  • rags-to-riches
  • roll
  • stinking
  • strike

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flushnoun

uk/flʌʃ/us/flʌʃ/

flush noun (RED COLOUR)

[ C ] a red colour that appears on your face or body because you are embarrassed, hot, etc.:

A faint pink flush coloured her cheeks.
See also
hot flush

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The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • wan
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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Expressing and showing feelings

flush noun (SUDDEN FEELING)

a flush of anger, excitement, pleasure, etc.

a sudden strong feeling of anger, excitement, pleasure, etc.

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The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • wan
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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Expressing and showing feelings

flush noun (TOILET)

[ C ] an occasion when the contents of a toilet empty and it fills with water

UK the handle or button that you push to make a toilet empty and fill with water:

He pressed the flush with his hand.

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Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage

  • ballcock
  • bleed
  • cesspit
  • cistern
  • conduit
  • culvert
  • leakage
  • mixer tap
  • overflow
  • pipeline
  • piping
  • plughole
  • plumb
  • plunger
  • siphon
  • standpipe
  • stopcock
  • tubing
  • U-bend
  • washer

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Parts of buildings: the toilet
Bathroom fixtures & fittings

flush noun (CARD GAMES)

[ C ] a number of playing cards held by one player that are all from the same suit

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Card games

  • bridge
  • canasta
  • card sharp
  • deal
  • dealer
  • diamond
  • discard
  • grand slam
  • jack
  • joker
  • pass
  • pool
  • royal flush
  • rummy
  • shuffle
  • singleton
  • snap
  • solitaire
  • strip poker
  • suit

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