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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flush \Flush\, v. t.
   1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm
      with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the
      purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
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   2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the
      blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
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            Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
                                                  --Gay.
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            Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
            Flushing his brow.                    --Keats.
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   3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if
      suffused with blood.
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            How faintly flushed. how phantom fair,
            Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!        --Tennyson.
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   4. To excite; to animate; to stir.
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            Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his
            ambition.                             --South.
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   5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. --Nares.
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   6. To cause to flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or
      through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means
      of a rush of water.
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   To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the
      level; to make them flush.
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