Words that rhyme with dusch

n 1: an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air v 1: paint with an airbrush; "The old car looks like new now that we airbrushed it"

n 1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness] 2: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) [syn: blush, flush] v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush, crimson, flush, redden] 2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket] 2: an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle 3: momentary contact [syn: brush, light touch] 4: conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor 5: a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) 6: a minor short-term fight [syn: brush, clash, encounter, skirmish] 7: the act of brushing your teeth; "the dentist recommended two brushes a day" [syn: brush, brushing] 8: the act of brushing your hair; "he gave his hair a quick brush" [syn: brush, brushing] 9: contact with something dangerous or undesirable; "I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police" v 1: rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket" 2: touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly" 3: clean with a brush; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet" 4: sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience" [syn: brush, sweep] 5: remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections" 6: cover by brushing; "brush the bread with melted butter"

n 1: the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing" [syn: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold] 2: a tense critical situation; "he is a good man in the clutch" 3: a number of birds hatched at the same time 4: a collection of things or persons to be handled together [syn: batch, clutch] 5: a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand [syn: clutch bag, clutch] 6: a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism; "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other" [syn: clutch, clutch pedal] 7: a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism; "this year's model has an improved clutch" v 1: take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals" [syn: seize, prehend, clutch] 2: hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared" [syn: cling to, hold close, hold tight, clutch] 3: affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" [syn: seize, clutch, get hold of]

n 1: leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated [syn: crushed leather, crush] 2: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press] 3: temporary love of an adolescent [syn: puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation] 4: the act of crushing [syn: crush, crunch, compaction] v 1: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress, suppress, crush] 2: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn: squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze] 3: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 4: break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy" 5: humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" [syn: crush, smash, demolish] 6: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush] 7: make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" [syn: break down, crush] 8: become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

n 1: a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking 2: anything that serves as an expedient; "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch"

adv 1: squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face" 2: in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table" adj 1: 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" 2: 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" [syn: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy] n 1: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] 2: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness] 3: sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) [syn: hot flash, flush] 4: a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit 5: 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" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 6: 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" [syn: flush, gush, outpouring] 7: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) [syn: blush, flush] v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush, crimson, flush, redden] 2: flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river" 3: glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" 4: make level or straight; "level the ground" [syn: flush, level, even out, even] 5: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush, scour, purge] 6: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: sluice, flush] 7: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"

n 1: 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" [syn: flush, gush, outpouring] 2: an unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullition] v 1: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth" [syn: spurt, spirt, gush, spout] 2: praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant" [syn: rave, gush] 3: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" [syn: jet, gush]

n 1: a brush used to groom a person's hair

n 1: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: hush, stillness, still] v 1: become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!" 2: cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up] [ant: louden] 3: become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden] 4: wash by removing particles; "Wash ores" 5: run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals

n 1: a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals 2: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty]

adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous] 2: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy] 3: full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: lush, succulent] n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse]

adv 1: to a great degree or extent; "she's much better now" 2: very; "he was much annoyed" 3: to a very great degree or extent; "I feel a lot better"; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal" [syn: a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much] 4: (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely; "much the same thing happened every time"; "practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god" [syn: much, practically] 5: frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much" [syn: much, a great deal, often] adj 1: (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent; "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage" [ant: little(a), slight] n 1: a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"

n 1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" [syn: pulp, mush] 2: cornmeal boiled in water [syn: mush, cornmeal mush] 3: writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental [syn: treacle, mush, slop, glop] 4: a journey by dogsled v 1: drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) 2: travel with a dogsled [syn: dogsled, mush]

n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch]

n 1: a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint)

adj 1: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy] n 1: a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet

adj 1: not accepting reservations [syn: first-come-first- serve(p), rush] 2: done under pressure; "a rush job" [syn: rush(a), rushed] n 1: the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" [syn: haste, hurry, rush, rushing] 2: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, spate, surge, upsurge] 3: grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems 4: physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813) [syn: Rush, Benjamin Rush] 5: 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" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 6: a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush" 7: (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush" [syn: rush, rushing] v 1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger] 2: attack suddenly 3: urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!" [syn: rush, hurry] [ant: delay, detain, hold up] 4: act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!" [syn: rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate] 5: run with the ball, in football 6: cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze" [syn: race, rush] 7: cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions" [syn: induce, stimulate, rush, hasten]

v 1: silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'

n 1: partially melted snow v 1: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush] 2: spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" [syn: slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around]

v 1: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch]

adv 1: to so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!" adj 1: of so extreme a degree or extent; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty"

n 1: candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults 2: a woman who sings popular songs 3: songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast

n 1: small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth 2: slang for a mustache [syn: soup-strainer, toothbrush]

n 1: German composer (1838-1920) [syn: Bruch, Max Bruch]

n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

adj 1: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and- corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]