Nettoyer ou vider quelque chose en y faisant passer un jet d'eau, par exemple des toilettes.
To clean or empty something by rushing water through it, e.g. a toilet.
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Je dois tirer la chasse après être passé aux toilettes. — I need to flush the toilet after using it.
Elle a tendance à rougir quand on lui fait un compliment. — She tends to flush when someone compliments her.
Sa rougeur était visible pendant la présentation. — Her flush was noticeable during the presentation.
Fais couler de l'eau dans les tuyaux pour dégager le bouchon. — Please flush the pipes to clear the blockage.
Il a senti son visage rougir pendant la présentation. — He felt his face flush during the presentation.
Vois-tu la rougeur sur ses joues ? — Do you see the flush on his cheeks?
Peux-tu purger le circuit avant que nous commencions ? — Can you flush the system before we start?
Pourquoi as-tu rougi quand il est entré ? — Why did you flush when he walked in?
Elle a senti une chaude bouffée d'excitation. — She felt a warm flush of excitement.
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testNot a verb but a whole phrase, and a literal one: tirer la chasse means to pull the flush — a leftover from high-tank toilets with a chain hanging down. French kept the gesture in the words long after the chains disappeared.
You will also hear tirer la chasse d'eau in full, and simply tirer when the context is obvious. La chasse here has nothing to do with hunting, which is the same word: it is the rush of water itself.
chasse hunting — and a rush of water
The same word does both. La chasse au lion and la chasse d'eau share a spelling and nothing else.
tirer to pull
One of the busiest verbs in French: pull, shoot, draw, print. Here it is the plain physical pull.
rincer to rinse
For flushing a pipe or a wound rather than a toilet.
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