Verb
- 1. blush, crimson, flush, redden, discolor, discolour, colour, color
- usage: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
- 2. flush, run, flow, feed, course
- usage: flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
- 3. flush, glow
- usage: glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
- 4. flush, level, even out, even, change surface
- usage: make level or straight; "level the ground"
- 5. flush, scour, purge, rinse, rinse off
- usage: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- 6. sluice, flush, drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
- usage: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
- 7. flush, water, irrigate
- usage: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
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