What is the meaning of flushed?

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"
  • Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.
    • usage: "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
  • 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"

adjective

  • Having the pinkish flush of health.
  • 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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APAWordNet. (2010). flushed. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/flushed/definitions/1174304
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "flushed" http://smartdefine.org/flushed/definitions/1174304 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, flushed, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/flushed/definitions/1174304>.
MLAWordNet. "flushed" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/flushed/definitions/1174304>
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