flush

verb (TOILET)

/flʌʃ/

Definition

› [I or T] If you flush a toilet, or if a toilet flushes, its contents empty and it fills with water again: My children never flush the loo/toilet after them. I can't get the toilet to flush.Plumbing and pipes and sewageThe toilet flush sth down the toilet › to get rid of something by putting it in the toilet and operating the toilet: I tend to flush old medicines down the toilet.Removing and getting rid of thingsTaking things away from someone or somewhere

(Definition of flush verb (TOILET) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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