to flush out
51
4.5
- phrasal verb
- /flʌʃ aʊt/
:
hacer salir
- Run the water for a few moments to flush out any dirt from the pipes.
I love to get in compression boots to kind of flush out all the bad toxins.
- I love to get in compression boots to kind of flush out all the bad toxins.
- The question is whether it would either secure your market share or flush out some competitors.
- But anyway, how long do those antibiotics stay in your body before they're washed out, before they're tagged by your liver and then flushed out by your kidneys?
- We're going to flush the body out so that we can get accurate horizontal proportions, so we can see better what the body is doing.
- Then we see this debate where nobody can tell us what we have seen is not what we have seen, and suddenly the media turns and is trying to flush him out.
- Flush water through its through its tissue and flush out a lot of toxins, including beta amyloid, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- We did not expect to see like jets of fluid flushing out toxins from the brain.
- Diuretics is it just flushes water out of your body and that was banned.
- We have to address that and resolve that and flush that out of your system.
- And I talk about things I do mentally to try to flush out some of the pain I was feeling.
- And if those cells die, then that means that you can't uptake nutrition and you just body just flushes everything out in diarrhea.
- That's all they can drink as a liquid for the next two years so they they can understand the importance of acid and it'll flush out their system.
Examples
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We have to address that and resolve that and flush that out of your system.
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The more water you have, the more toxins flush out from the body.
Blog text (16) -
Get down there now and flush that thing out!
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See if we can flush the daddy out.
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Got to flush them drugs out of your system.
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Keep flushing out her system with fresh water.
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So by pouring a nice glass of warm water into the drum, it's going to flush out any bits that you couldn't quite reach.
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Drinking water is the easiest way to detox your body and flush out the toxins.
Blog text (16) -
Hence, the toxins, including the dissolved cellulite, are easily flushed out of the body through the skin.
Blog text (2) -
Salt build-up is less severe in Southeast Asia because high rainfall helps to flush out accumulated salts.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
∞
1.6
To remove or throw away something you do not want
∞
1.5
To remove people or things from a place
948
1.9
To remove something from a place or container
260
1.0
To empty something completely
198
1.0
To let liquid flow away from something
189
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
168
2.7
To clean something by running water through it
91
3.1
Remove all things from a place so it becomes empty
81
4.3
Remove waste or harmful substances from the body
73
4.8
Make a person or place free from unwanted feelings such as guilt
49
6.3
To remove unwanted substances, things, or people by cleaning
34
5.0
Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container
33
2.1
Water or another liquid carries something away
30
4.6
To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean
23
3.2
To remove liquid with a pump or make many things quickly
21
3.9
Find and completely remove something harmful or hidden
20
4.1
Push a liquid or other substance out of something
20
3.8
To remove unwanted things from water, air, or lists by letting the rest pass
16
4.5
Pull something out of a place by using air to draw it in
13
4.2
To stop something completely using strong action
10
3.6
Remove people completely from a place or group because they are unwanted
10
1.8
To take things away from a place to make it tidy
8
3.0
Remove things from a surface to make it empty or clean
8
4.3
Carry away soil or roads by strong flowing water
6
4.2
To push something out with effort or pressure
5
5.0
To take out what is inside a container so it becomes empty
2
5.4
To remove harmful substances from something to make it safe
1
3.9
To destroy or carry something away completely, for example by water
1
9.9
To destroy something completely, including its root
1
8.4
To remove dangerous substances from people, equipment, or areas
To empty dirty liquid or other waste from a container like a bucket
To remove liquid from a surface by wiping it with a cloth
To clean something very well by scrubbing or washing
Antonyms
How Forceful
85
6.6
194
5.0
70
3.8
51
4.5
26
2.6
- Informal
35
7.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to force something undesirable out' is directly derivable from combining 'flush' (to push/clean through with liquid) with 'out' (away from the interior). The verb+particle pattern where 'out' signals expulsion or movement away is a common, compositional English pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The expression flush out comes from a simple picture: hunters or dogs would flush animals out of thick bushes so the animals ran into the open. That's why it now means 'to force something hidden or unwanted out of a place'.