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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flush1

▶verb

1 (of a person's skin or face) become red and hot, typically through illness or emotion.
■ glow or cause to glow with warm colour or light.

■ (be flushed with) be excited or elated by.

2 cleanse (something, especially a toilet) by passing large quantities of water through it.
■ remove or dispose of in such a way.

▶noun

2 a sudden rush of intense emotion.
■ a period of freshness and vigour: the first flush of youth.

– derivatives
flushable adjective,
flusher noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring or fly up’): symbolic; perh. influenced by flash1 and blush.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flush2

▶adjective

▶verb fill in (a joint) level with a surface.

– derivatives
flushness noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘perfect, lacking nothing’): prob. rel. to flush1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flush3

▶noun (in poker or brag) a hand of cards all of the same suit.

– origin C16: from Fr. flux (formerly flus), from L. fluxus (see flux).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flush4

▶noun Ecology a piece of wet ground over which water flows without being confined to a definite channel.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘marshy place’): var. of flash2.

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