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noun

a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.

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Also called hot flush .

Origin of hot flash

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby hot flash

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Recurring bouts of hot flashes and night sweats don’t help, either.
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Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
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Medical definitions for hot flash

hot flash

[ hŏt ]

n.

A sudden, brief sensation of heat, often over the entire body, caused by a transient dilation of the blood vessels of the skin and experienced by some menopausal women.hot flush

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