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flush out

flush out verb: to drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.

Verb

flush out (third-person singular simple present flushes out, present participle flushing out, simple past and past participle flushed out)

  1. (idiomatic) To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.
    • The dogs flushed out some doves.
    • The army flushed out the enemy spy.
    Synonyms:
    drive, flush, scare up
  2. (proscribed) To flesh out.
    • It should serve to flush out the existing ideas, generate new ones, insure that the approach chosen is responsive to the goals, and perhaps most importantly, get the whole team to sign up and take ownership of the application approach.1990, Robert E. Bergman, Thomas V. Moore, Managing Interactive Video/Multimedia Projects, Educational Technology,, →ISBN, page 45
    • Brainstorming with friends and colleagues can help you flush out the details of the idea.2009, Laura Bell, 101 Things You Didn’t Learn in Harvard Business School, TotalRecall Publications,, →ISBN, page 68
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out.

flush out meaning in Tamil and Bengali

flush out in Tamil

பீற்றித் தள்ளூ, பொங்கித் தள்ளு, நீரலசல், நீரலசு

flush out in Bengali

বিস্তারিত বর্ণনা করা

Examples of flush out in a sentence

  • Of course the real purpose was to flush out dissident civil servants, using homosexuality as an excuse.1982 December 18, Siong-huat Chua, Sam Sasha, Philip Fung, “Hong Kong And The Emergence Of An Asian Gay Consciousness”, in Gay Community...
  • They whacked everything in sight – bushes, bins, even the burnt-out burger van – in an effort to flush out whoever had hurt their glorious leader.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  • As you flush out a great design, start prototyping it.2014, George Berkowski, How to Build a Billion Dollar App, Little, →ISBN:

Synonyms of flush out

Forms of flush out

third-person singular presentflushes out
present participleflushing out
past participleflushed out
pastflushed out

Questions about flush out

What does flush out mean?
Flush out means to drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.
What is flush out in Tamil?
Flush out in Tamil is பீற்றித் தள்ளூ, பொங்கித் தள்ளு, நீரலசல். See Flush out meaning in Tamil.
How do you use flush out in a sentence?
Of course the real purpose was to flush out dissident civil servants, using homosexuality as an excuse.
What part of speech is flush out?
Flush out is a verb.
What is the past tense of flush out?
The past tense of flush out is flushed out.

Words near flush out in the dictionary

  1. flush median
  2. flush mount
  3. flush mounted
  4. flush mounting
  5. flush mounts
  6. flush out
  7. flush right
  8. flush toilet
  9. flush toilets
  10. flushable
  11. flushables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flush out (page history and authors); flush out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flush out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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