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flush

/ˈflʌʃ/ verbe C2

En français : laver à grande eau, tirer la chasse d'eau, tirer la chasse

  1. To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. (transitive) · Flush the injury with plenty of water.
  2. Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water. (transitive)
  3. To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush. (intransitive) · The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.
  4. To cause to blush. (transitive)
  5. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water. · to flush the meadows
  6. To excite, inflame. (transitive)
  7. To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water. (intransitive) · There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing.
  8. To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents. (transitive)

He/she/it flushes · Prétérit flushed · Participe passé flushed · Forme en -ing flushing

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
flush
He/she/it
flushes
Prétérit
flushed
Participe passé
flushed
Forme en -ing
flushing

Dans la bibliothèque

The flush had faded in an instant, and a deathly face was before me.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 143 · C1
As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 23 · C1
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 2 · C1
First the look of despair faded out; then came a faint flush of hope; her eyes grew deep and bright as morning stars.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 59 · C1

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