Wiktionary
vb. 1 To force people or animals to leave a place where they are hiding. 2 To clean by forcing a lot of water, or other cleaning liquid, through a dirty container or conduit. 3 (context finance English) To eliminate other possible hostile bidders in a takeover attempt.
Usage examples of "flush out".
I'd taken the Flush out a hundred times and brought her back and tucked her, creaking and sighing, against the piers, home safe.
He had selected fairly isolated places that would make it easier to flush out someone who was following them.
Why can't you ship the Busted Flush out to the islands as deck cargo?
We brought the bow anchors aboard, worked the Flush out by hauling on the stern anchor lines.
After Harder left at noon-warping the Flush out with an offhand competence that would have erased any doubts if I'd harbored any.