flush

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of FLUSH

to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse <use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink>

Synonyms irrigate, rinse, sluice, wash, wash out

Related Words deluge, engulf, flood, inundate, swamp; flow, gush, rush, stream; douche, hose; drench, saturate, soak; douse (also dowse), slosh, splash

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) <he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment>

Synonyms bloom, color, crimson, flush, glow, redden

Related Words incarnadine, rouge, ruddle; abash, chagrin, discomfit, disconcert, embarrass, faze, humiliate, mortify

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