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US
/ˈfɫəʃt/
]
[ UK /flˈʌʃt/ ]
[ UK /flˈʌʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having the pinkish flush of health
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(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
red-faced and violent
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
crimson with fury
turned red from exertion
with puffy reddened eyes
How To Use flushed In A Sentence
- A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water.
- His face flushed with anger.
- It was all I could do to keep from laughing as I discussed filling in forms and so on, whilst loos flushed all around me.
- A little later than usual, he arrived, freshly showered and a little flushed from exercise.
- The discovery of the ruins came after a mudslide flushed out a deep trench nearly two-kilometers long and 25-meters wide through rice fields late last month.
- Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
- He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
- Her face was flushed after her run.
- When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles.
- Finding our way back home, chilled to the bone, our cheeks and noses flushed from the fresh air, to find a pot of hot coffee and a warm apple tart on the table. Jamie Schler: Apple Clafoutis: A Recipe for Autumn