What part of speech is flushes?

Flushes can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. flushes is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of flush (infinitive).
  • 2. flushes is a noun, plural of flush.

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Verb

Noun

What does flushes mean?

Definitions

Verb
flush - make level or straight; "level the ground"
flush - cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
flush - flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
flush - rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
flush - glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
flush - turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

Noun
flush - a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
flush - a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
flush - the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
flush - the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
flush - sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
flush - a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
flush - sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
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Examples of flushes

#   Sentence  
1. noun I have hot flushes.
2. noun He heard the flush of a toilet.
3. noun The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.
4. noun Those boys are in the first flush of youth.
5. noun His pale face showed a flush of excitement.
6. noun A flush is a poker hand where all five cards are of the same suit.
7. noun The orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
8. noun After this the naiad was silent. A red flush branded the boy’s face. He did not know what love was: though the blush was very becoming.
9. noun He became sad; he sighed and shivered, and his heart beat more quickly. He turned pale when he looked at Chloe, and then suddenly a flush suffused his face.
10. noun He remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.
11. noun Yanni didn't hear Skura flush.
12. noun There's something wrong with the toilet flush. Can you have a look at it, Tom?
13. noun The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.
14. noun Those boys are in the first flush of youth.
15. noun His pale face showed a flush of excitement.
16. verb Pull the string and the water flushes.
17. verb Sami always flushes the toilet.
18. verb The toilet flushes.
19. verb Flush the meadows.
20. verb Flush the wound with antibiotics.
21. verb If I threw him against a wall and still conscious he will run away, do I hang him by the tail so the blood can flush into his skull?
22. verb Don't forget to flush the toilet.
23. verb The toilet doesn't flush.
24. verb The toilet doesn't flush properly.
25. verb Tom reminded Mary not to forget to flush the toilet.
26. verb Don't flush yet, we've been cut out the water supply.
27. verb Remember to flush the toilet.
28. verb Dan didn't even flush the toilet.
29. verb Did you forget to flush the toilet?
30. verb Tom didn't forget to flush the toilet.
31. adj. A door flush with the wall.
32. adj. The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
33. adj. A speculator flush with cash.
34. adv. Hit him flush in the face.
35. adv. Set it flush with the top of the table.
Sentence  
noun
I have hot flushes.
He heard the flush of a toilet.
The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.
Those boys are in the first flush of youth.
His pale face showed a flush of excitement.
A flush is a poker hand where all five cards are of the same suit.
The orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
After this the naiad was silent. A red flush branded the boy’s face. He did not know what love was: though the blush was very becoming.
He became sad; he sighed and shivered, and his heart beat more quickly. He turned pale when he looked at Chloe, and then suddenly a flush suffused his face.
He remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.
Yanni didn't hear Skura flush.
There's something wrong with the toilet flush. Can you have a look at it, Tom?
The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.
Those boys are in the first flush of youth.
His pale face showed a flush of excitement.
verb
Pull the string and the water flushes.
Sami always flushes the toilet.
The toilet flushes.
Flush the meadows.
Flush the wound with antibiotics.
If I threw him against a wall and still conscious he will run away, do I hang him by the tail so the blood can flush into his skull?
Don't forget to flush the toilet.
The toilet doesn't flush.
The toilet doesn't flush properly.
Tom reminded Mary not to forget to flush the toilet.
Don't flush yet, we've been cut out the water supply.
Remember to flush the toilet.
Dan didn't even flush the toilet.
Did you forget to flush the toilet?
Tom didn't forget to flush the toilet.
adj.
A door flush with the wall.
The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
A speculator flush with cash.
adv.
Hit him flush in the face.
Set it flush with the top of the table.
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