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be flushed
noun
A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
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Some suggested that Thain could be flushed down it.
The engine must be flushed to remove deposits.
Were this Watteau, their faces would be flushed with pleasure.
"Stuff would be flushed to the storm drain, but no water would go down".
The politicians should be flushed out and made to justify their rail policy.
Except for Yesterday's News and Feline Pine, all of these litters can be flushed.
Perhaps her sexuality isn't a poison to be flushed out, or a spell to be broken.
Enthusiasts for the revival of interest in the British baroque will be flushed with excitement.
"Unless they can organize it, the union's power will inevitably be flushed away," he said.
The sand would be flushed into the fractures and would hold them open.
If we missed a bird, it tended to land close enough to be flushed out anew.
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