To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
An act of cleansing; a purification.
To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.
To flesh out.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out.