Очистить или опустошить что-то, пропустив через это rushing water, например, туалет.
To clean or empty something by rushing water through it, e.g. a toilet.
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Мне нужно спустить воду в туалете после использования. — I need to flush the toilet after using it.
Она обычно краснеет, когда её хвалят. — She tends to flush when someone compliments her.
Её румянец был заметен во время презентации. — Her flush was noticeable during the presentation.
Пожалуйста, промойте трубы, чтобы убрать засор. — Please flush the pipes to clear the blockage.
Он почувствовал, как его лицо покраснело во время презентации. — He felt his face flush during the presentation.
Ты видишь румянец на его щеках? — Do you see the flush on his cheeks?
Можешь промыть систему перед началом? — Can you flush the system before we start?
Почему ты покраснел, когда он вошёл? — Why did you flush when he walked in?
Она почувствовала тёплый прилив волнения. — She felt a warm flush of excitement.
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Download the app for free Russian vocabulary testПромывать is the pipe-and-wound sense of flush: to send water through something to clean it out. Промывать рану, промывать трубы. The prefix про- carries the idea of passing all the way through, and it is worth learning on its own — it does the same job in пройти, прочитать, продумать.
For the toilet Russian does not use this verb at all. It says смыть — to wash away — or simply смывать. Ask about промывать унитаз and you will sound like a plumber describing a repair.
смывать to wash away, to flush a toilet
The verb for the toilet. Промывать cleans the inside of something; смывать takes something off a surface.
ополаскивать to rinse
A quick pass with water, no pressure and no thoroughness implied.
чистить to clean
The general verb. Промывать says how the cleaning happens — by water running through.
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