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noun
- (uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
- (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- (uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- (countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).
- (uncountable) Dirt, filth.
- the quality of being highly unpleasant
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
noun
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
noun
- the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities
- a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
- the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
- the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing
- A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
- The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
- (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
noun
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
verb
noun
- a condition promoting sanitary practices
- the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
- Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
- The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- Cleanliness.
- (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
verb
adj
adv
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
adj
- Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- (microbiology, of a microorganism) Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.
- Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
noun
- Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
- (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
- (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
- (uncountable, slang) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
- (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- (especially LGBTQ) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
- standard temperature and pressure
adj
name
verb
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
noun
- the state of being contaminated
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- a substance that contaminates
- (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
- (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- The act or process of contaminating.
- (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
- Something which contaminates.
noun
- the state of being contaminated
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
verb
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
contraction
verb
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
noun
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
noun
- Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
- Water that contains dark organic matter such as loam or tannins.
- (river classification) Water that is acidic and low in nutrients.
- Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
- any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells
name
- Initialism of American Association for Contamination Control.
- Initialism of American Automatic Control Council.
- Initialism of Association for the Aid of Crippled Children.
- Initialism of Australian Army Catering Corps.
- Initialism of American Association of Credit Counselors.
- Initialism of Army Air Corps Center.
- Initialism of American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
- Initialism of American Association of Cereal Chemists.
- Initialism of Australian-American Chamber of Commerce.
noun
- the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances
- the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems
- (biochemistry) The use of biological organisms, usually microorganisms, to remove contaminants, especially from polluted water.
noun
verb
noun
- (derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
- (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Semen.
- (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
- a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid
- worthless people
noun
- (uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
- (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- (uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- (countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).
- (uncountable) Dirt, filth.
- the quality of being highly unpleasant
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
noun
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
noun
- the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities
- a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
- the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
- the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing
- A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
- The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
- (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
noun
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
verb
noun
- a condition promoting sanitary practices
- the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
- Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
- The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- Cleanliness.
- (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
noun
- Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
- (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
- (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
- (uncountable, slang) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
- (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- (especially LGBTQ) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
- standard temperature and pressure
adj
name
noun
- the state of being contaminated
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- a substance that contaminates
- (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
- (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- The act or process of contaminating.
- (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
- Something which contaminates.
noun
- the state of being contaminated
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
verb
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
contraction
noun
- Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
- Water that contains dark organic matter such as loam or tannins.
- (river classification) Water that is acidic and low in nutrients.
- Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
- any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells
noun
- the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances
- the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems
- (biochemistry) The use of biological organisms, usually microorganisms, to remove contaminants, especially from polluted water.
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
verb
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
verb
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
noun
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
verb
noun
- (derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
- (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Semen.
- (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
- a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid
- worthless people
adj
- Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- (microbiology, of a microorganism) Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements.
- Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures