flush out

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flush out

verb flushes out · flushing out · flushed out

idiomatic To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover. The dogs flushed out some doves.
Similar: drive, flush, scare up
proscribed To flesh out. 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.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out.

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@misc{flush_out_2026,
  title = {flush out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flush%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}