flushing
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- To cause to take flight from concealment.
Example: "The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake."
- To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
Example: "A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth."
- To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
Example: "Flush the injury with plenty of water."
- Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
Example: "The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion."
- To cause to blush.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
Example: "to flush the meadows"
- To excite, inflame.
- (of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
Example: "There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing."
- To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
Example: "Blood flushes into the face."
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
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