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Flushed   /fləʃt/   Listen
Flushed

adjective
1.
Having the pinkish flush of health.  Synonyms: rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked.
2.
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion.  Synonyms: crimson, red, red-faced, reddened.  "Turned red from exertion" , "With puffy reddened eyes" , "Red-faced and violent" , "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"


Flush

verb
(past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)
1.
Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.  Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden.
2.
Flow freely.
3.
Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.
4.
Make level or straight.  Synonyms: even, even out, level.
5.
Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.  Synonyms: purge, scour.  "Purge the old gas tank"
6.
Irrigate with water from a sluice.  Synonym: sluice.
7.
Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.



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"Flushed" Quotes from Famous Books



... and put his hand to his forehead to hide his flushed face: he was almost possessing the list of the Twenty-seven. It lay before him, on ...
— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc
... Katherine flushed more brightly than before. "We thought it was Oily Dave whom we were trying to save," she said, with a faint ripple of laughter. "And Miles said he wasn't worth it, only of course we had to do the best we could. Are you the ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant
... his old position when I entered, and there were no signs of the mysterious movements which I had overheard, though his chubby face was flushed as with ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various
... of War, flushed with the success, predicted that the Confederate flag "will, before the first of May, float over the dome of the old Capitol at Washington" and "will eventually float over Faneuil ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... in that village had been to that store after something or another—pins, needles, a yard of tape, to look at gloves, to try on shoes, or examine gingham and calico, until I was happy, because out of sight, behind a pile high enough to hide my flushed countenance. I shall never forget that week. I ran the gauntlet from morning till night. I believe those heartless wretches told each other the mistakes I made, for they kept coming and coming, looking as sweet as honey and as sly as foxes. Father said I'd break him if I didn't stop making ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor


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