Word

flush, v.
(flushed, flushes, flushing)
freq. cnt. 5

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

blush crimson flush redden

sample sentences

"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

blush blusher blusher

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flush flush

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

crimson

semantic pointers

hypernym

discolor, discolour, colour, color

flow freely
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

flush

sample sentences

"The garbage flushed down the river"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flush

semantic pointers

hyponym

wash down, flush down

hypernym

flow, run, feed, course

cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
<verb.change>

flush

sample sentences

"flush the meadows"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flush

semantic pointers

hypernym

water, irrigate

hyponym

suffuse, perfuse perfuse

cause

flow, run, feed, course

irrigate with water from a sluice
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

flush sluice

sample sentences

"sluice the earth"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

sluice

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flush

semantic pointers

hypernym

soak, souse, drench, douse, dowse, sop

rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
<verb.change>

flush purge scour

sample sentences

"flush the wound with antibiotics"
"purge the old gas tank"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

scour

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

purge

semantic pointers

hypernym

rinse, rinse off

make level or straight
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

even even out flush level

sample sentences

"level the ground"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

level leveller leveler

semantic pointers

hypernym

change surface

hyponym

grade strickle, strike strickle

glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
<verb.perception>

flush

sample sentences

"the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

verb frames

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semantic pointers

hypernym

glow