Limpiar o vaciar algo haciendo pasar agua a chorro, como una cisterna.
To clean or empty something by rushing water through it, e.g. a toilet.
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Tengo que descargar la cisterna después de usar el baño. — I need to flush the toilet after using it.
Suele ruborizarse cuando alguien le hace un cumplido. — She tends to flush when someone compliments her.
Su rubor se notaba durante la presentación. — Her flush was noticeable during the presentation.
Descarga agua por las tuberías para deshacer el atasco. — Please flush the pipes to clear the blockage.
Notó que se ruborizaba durante la presentación. — He felt his face flush during the presentation.
¿Ves el rubor de sus mejillas? — Do you see the flush on his cheeks?
¿Puedes descargar el sistema antes de que empecemos? — Can you flush the system before we start?
¿Por qué te ruborizaste cuando él entró? — Why did you flush when he walked in?
Sintió un cálido rubor de emoción. — She felt a warm flush of excitement.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testThis is the plumbing sense of descargar: to send water through something to empty or clean it. Descargar la cisterna is to flush the toilet, and the same verb covers flushing a pipe or a system.
Worth knowing that in Spain almost nobody says it this way in the bathroom. The everyday phrase is tirar de la cadena — literally to pull the chain, left over from old high-tank toilets. Descargar la cisterna reads as the plumber's or the manual's wording.
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Same verb, the sense you will meet far more often. The card for that meaning is a separate page.
vaciar to empty
Empties a container of whatever is in it, with no water involved: vaciar el vaso, vaciar la casa.
limpiar to clean
The general verb. Descargar says how the cleaning happens — by rushing water through.
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