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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.

The act by which something is flushed.

Example: We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings.

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.

A surface formed of floating threads.