verb
- Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
- usage: "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
- Flow freely.
- usage: "The garbage flushed down the river"
- synonyms: flush
- Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.
- usage: "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
- synonyms: flush
- Make level or straight.
- usage: "level the ground"
- Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.
- usage: "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- Irrigate with water from a sluice.
- usage: "sluice the earth"
- Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water.
- usage: "flush the meadows"
- synonyms: flush
adjective
- Having the pinkish flush of health.
- synonyms: rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked
- Especially of the face. ( reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion)
- usage: "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
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