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Flushed   /fləʃt/   Listen
verb
Flush  v. t.  
1.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
2.
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. "Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek." "Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
3.
To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. "How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!"
4.
To excite; to animate; to stir. "Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition."
5.
To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
6.
To cause to flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.
To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.


Flush  v. i.  (past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)  
1.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. "The flushing noise of many waters." "It flushes violently out of the cock."
2.
To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
3.
To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. "In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed."
4.
To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. "Flushing from one spray unto another."


Flush  v. i.  (Mining)
(a)
To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
(b)
To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.





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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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