flushing

To cause to take flight from concealment.

“The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.”

To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

“A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.”

To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

“Flush the injury with plenty of water.”

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.

“The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.”

To cause to blush.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.

“to flush the meadows”

To excite, inflame.

(of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.

“There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing.”

To clear (a buffer) of its contents.

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.

“Blood flushes into the face.”

To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.

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.

To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet

The act by which something is flushed.

“We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings.”

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.

A surface formed of floating threads.