I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in the first flush of passion/youth etc
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He was no longer in the first flush of youth.
flush the toilet (= make water go through it to clean it )
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I heard someone flush the toilet.
go/turn/flush/blush crimson
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The boy blushed crimson.
go/turn/flush/blush scarlet
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Eileen blushed scarlet at the joke.
hot flush
royal flush
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
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Hot drinks cause sweating and hot flushes in the face and head.
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He underlined passages about hot flushes and stress.
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Heat on top of the head; feet burn at night in bed, hot flushes rising up.
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This treatment can reduce hot flushes and vaginal thinning and is also highly effective against osteoporosis.
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Also, hot flushes are quite easily camouflaged with such exertion.
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All this with a thudding heart, hot flushes and the school run?
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The muscles of his arms and chest were rippling as he moved and she felt a hot flush creeping over her body.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flushed with success/excitement/pleasure etc
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His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
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She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
the first flush of sth
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Could any one house be sufficiently interesting to fulfil this dual role after the first flush of passion passed?
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In the first flush of glasnost much information was made available and deputies often asserted themselves aggressively.
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Now aged 31, Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth.
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Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds.
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They are still in the first flush of lust and romance, when everything your partner does is absolutely bloody marvellous.
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They are still in the first flush of passion.
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We are getting divorced, after the first flush of twenties marriages.
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Why had he and Zoe, in the first flush of affluence, decided the desirable residence was truly desirable?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The average toilet uses 5 gallons of water per flush .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And what young man is beyond such indulgences in the early flush of being the recipient of a woman such as Marie-Claude?
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Britain now, on the international stage, is a busted flush .
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I see the rictus and an entirely gratuitous glowing flush on her throat.
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It doesn't contain water, but makes an authentic-sounding flush .
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Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds.
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The flush of the olive cheek.
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The hectic flush on Isabel's face gradually faded as she watched fitzAlan leave.
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The total number of flushes to date is 202, 063, with one in five a freebie.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
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Her teeth were chattering, her eyes staring, and her face was deeply flushed .
■ NOUN
anger
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The other man was flushed with anger .
embarrassment
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Harry nearly jumped back in surprise and flushed instantly in embarrassment at the distaste his flinching movement had signalled.
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I flew back to the field flushed with embarrassment .
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He flushed with embarrassment and turned away.
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The thought made him flush hot with embarrassment even though chilled to the marrow.
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Elisabeth wrung her hands, still flushing with embarrassment , hoping David would forgive her.
excitement
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His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement .
lavatory
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She talked to Susan about it being flushed away and that Susan could flush the lavatory when she had finished.
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She flushed the lavatory , although she hadn't used it.
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Solar-powered pumps draw water from a lake to flush the lavatories at the Cragside estate in Northumberland.
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I tore my lunch invitation to Carla into little pieces and flushed them down the lavatory .
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Most of the water that we use does not go on drinking, washing or flushing the lavatory .
pleasure
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She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
toilet
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The toilet can also be flushed whilst the fan is in operation.
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She saw the cups of coffee on the table, the showers running, the toilets flushing , the windows opening.
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Through the end of July, the high-tech toilets have flushed 359, 431 times.
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You can practically hear the toilets flushing .
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The voice called out from the kitchen, the toilet flushed .
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Behind him, at the rear of the house, there was the sound of a toilet flushing .
water
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One way to reduce domestic water consumption would be to reduce the use of water for flushing the toilet.
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I filled his food dish, freshened his water , flushed his toilet, and came back and watched him eat.
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The decision to opt for sewage composting was made largely in order to reduce the need for water for flushing the toilet.
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Because cool water is continuously flushing through the rock, heat is dispersed much more efficiently.
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I heard the noise of water and the lavatory flushing .
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The water is flushed through the sheds numerous times, becoming more concentrated with each pass.
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Drink at least eight glasses of water a day to flush out your system.
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Included among the Euromyths are: The Euro-lavatory, limiting the amount of water cisterns may flush .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Flushing slightly, Lesley looked away.
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Deep watering flushes salts from the soil around the plant's roots.
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Drinking water after exercise flushes out the wastes released from the muscles.
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I can't get the toilet to flush .
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People who neglect to flush public toilets may be fined.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Afraid the water-table will go down if we flush them all at once?
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Drink at least eight glasses of water a day to flush out your system.
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Each washing machine cycle, for example, takes a staggering 90 litres, while flushing the toilet uses another nine.
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If the system started to drift away from the requirements of a coral reef, Gomez would flush the trays.
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Through the end of July, the high-tech toilets have flushed 359, 431 times.
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To get rid of it you usually need to remove the radiator so you can flush it out.
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You can practically hear the toilets flushing.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alan gives his wife fifty dollars a week, or a little more if he's flush
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I'll buy the drinks, I'm feeling flush just now.
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Jamie has $600 saved; Adam isn't quite so flush .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A flush door will have a block of wood inserted at a convenient point so there's something solid to cut into.
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If either of these apply, then it probably makes sense to buy a replacement while you are still feeling relatively flush .
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Larry felt flush and well fed, a little tipsy, all the right things.
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New openings Transform plain flush doors into elegant features without hanging new ones.
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Only a few months ago university freshers started student life feeling quite flush .
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She was carvel-built with flush planks, and - as a piècederésistance - she sported a woman's bust as a figurehead.
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Thus, in the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures.