· the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Synonym(s): flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence

Hypernym(s): time_period, period_of_time, period

· a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Synonym(s): bloom, blush, rosiness

Hypernym(s): good_health, healthiness

· sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

Synonym(s): hot_flash

Hypernym(s): symptom

· a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

Hypernym(s): poker_hand

· 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"

Synonym(s): bang, boot, charge, rush, thrill, kick

Hypernym(s): exhilaration, excitement

· 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"

Synonym(s): gush, outpouring

Hypernym(s): flow, flowing

· sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

Synonym(s): blush

Hypernym(s): reflex, reflex_response, reflex_action, instinctive_reflex, innate_reflex, inborn_reflex, unconditioned_reflex, physiological_reaction

· turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

Synonym(s): blush, crimson, redden

Hypernym(s): discolor, discolour, colour, color

· flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"

Hypernym(s): run, flow, feed, course

· glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

Hypernym(s): glow

· make level or straight; "level the ground"

Synonym(s): level, even_out, even

Hypernym(s): change_surface

· rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

Synonym(s): scour, purge

Hypernym(s): rinse, rinse_off

· irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

Synonym(s): sluice

Hypernym(s): drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse

· cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"

Hypernym(s): water, irrigate

· of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"

· having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"; "a substantial family"

Synonym(s): affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy, substantial

· squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"

· in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"