flushing

/ˈflʌʃɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

To cause to take flight from concealment.
To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
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.
To cause to blush.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
To excite, inflame.
The act by which something is flushed.
A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.
A surface formed of floating threads.

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