Usually means: Clears out; enhances flow, circulation.
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  1. flushes: Merriam-Webster
  2. flushes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flushes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Flushes, flushes: Wordnik
  5. flushes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flushes: Wiktionary
  7. flushes: Dictionary.com
  8. flushes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. flushes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flushes: Legal dictionary

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  1. flushes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flushes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. flushes: Medical dictionary

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  1. flushes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flush)

noun:  A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
verb:  (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
adjective:  Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
adjective:  Wealthy or well off.
adjective:  Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
adjective:  Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
adverb:  Suddenly and completely.
noun:  A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
noun:  Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
noun:  (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
noun:  A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
noun:  Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
noun:  A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
noun:  (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
verb:  (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
verb:  (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
verb:  (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to blush.
verb:  To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
verb:  (transitive) To excite, inflame.
verb:  (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
verb:  (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
verb:  To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
verb:  To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
verb:  (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
verb:  (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
verb:  (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
noun:  A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
noun:  (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
adjective:  (typography) Short for flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins. [(typography) A body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.]
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