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hot flush

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A sudden, but brief, sensation of heat over the entire body; a common symptom of the menopause.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, UK

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Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: هِبَّة الْحَرَارَة (hibba al-ḥarāra) — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Arabic: وَمْضَة سَاخِنَة (wamḍa sāḵina) — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Catalan: fogot — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Catalan: calrada — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Catalan: calorada — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Catalan: sufocació — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Chinese Mandarin: 潮熱 /潮热 (cháorè) — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Czech: nával horka — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Dutch: opvlieger — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Esperanto: varmiĝo — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Finnish: kuuma aalto — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • French: bouffée de chaleur — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Galician: fogaxe — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • German: Hitzewallung — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Greek: έξαψη (éxapsi) — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Hungarian: hőhullám — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Italian: vampata di calore — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Italian: vampa — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Italian: caldana — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Italian: scalmana — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Lithuanian: karščio pylimas — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Polish: uderzenie gorąca — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Portuguese: onda de calor — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Portuguese: fogacho — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Portuguese: calorão — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Sicilian: caudani — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Sicilian: caudanati — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Sicilian: quararati — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Sicilian: caudaneḍḍi — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Spanish: sofoco — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Spanish: bochorno — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Spanish: calma — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Swedish: värmevallning — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause
  • Swedish: blodvallning — sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause