"flush out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flushes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushing out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "flush out (third-person singular simple present flushes out, present participle flushing out, simple past and past participle flushed out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out."
      ],
      "id": "en-flush_out-en-verb-JQXHg2tY",
      "links": [
        [
          "flush",
          "flush#English"
        ],
        [
          "out",
          "out#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The dogs flushed out some doves.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The army flushed out the enemy spy.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover."
      ],
      "id": "en-flush_out-en-verb-SQxQC7LD",
      "links": [
        [
          "drive out",
          "drive out"
        ],
        [
          "expose",
          "expose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drive#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "flush#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "scare up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 28 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Robert E. Bergman, Thomas V. Moore, Managing Interactive Video/Multimedia Projects, Educational Technology,, page 45",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Laura Bell, 101 Things You Didn’t Learn in Harvard Business School, TotalRecall Publications,, page 68",
          "text": "Brainstorming with friends and colleagues can help you flush out the details of the idea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, George Berkowski, How to Build a Billion Dollar App, Little",
          "text": "As you flush out a great design, start prototyping it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To flesh out."
      ],
      "id": "en-flush_out-en-verb-vY0f9vuN",
      "links": [
        [
          "flesh out",
          "flesh out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(proscribed) To flesh out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "proscribed"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flush out"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flushes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushing out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flushed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "flush out (third-person singular simple present flushes out, present participle flushing out, simple past and past participle flushed out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flush",
          "flush#English"
        ],
        [
          "out",
          "out#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The dogs flushed out some doves.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The army flushed out the enemy spy.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drive out",
          "drive out"
        ],
        [
          "expose",
          "expose"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drive#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "flush#Verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "scare up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English proscribed terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Robert E. Bergman, Thomas V. Moore, Managing Interactive Video/Multimedia Projects, Educational Technology,, page 45",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Laura Bell, 101 Things You Didn’t Learn in Harvard Business School, TotalRecall Publications,, page 68",
          "text": "Brainstorming with friends and colleagues can help you flush out the details of the idea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, George Berkowski, How to Build a Billion Dollar App, Little",
          "text": "As you flush out a great design, start prototyping it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To flesh out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flesh out",
          "flesh out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(proscribed) To flesh out."
      ],
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        "proscribed"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flush out"
}