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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



... light in his long gray eyes that affected Ernestine so profoundly that she gazed into his eyes over long, became conscious of what she was doing, dropped her own eyes away, and flushed. ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... Marion, with the most dancing eyes in the world, and the President completed the scene by laughing outright. Suddenly Ruth discovered that she was acting the part of a simpleton, and with flushed face she turned from them, and walked to a vacant seat, in the opposite direction from where they ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... He flushed through the tan, and scooping some dry leaves together into a bed, took off his coat and folded it for ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... at this, beyond bearing; and as she could not, like him, govern her anger, it flushed in her face, and ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald
... knocked over when he had built the fire this morning lay where it had fallen: the room was full of its pungent odor. On the dining-room table were the remnants of breakfast, the oatmeal dry and stiff, the butter melted down to a thin oil. In the front room he found Gertrude, bending a flushed face over something she was writing. She gave a start of fright as he came in—then ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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