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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



... foothold was precarious. Jenks helped the girl in this part of the climb. His strong, gentle grasp gave her confidence. She was flushed with exertion when they stood together on the summit of this elevated perch. They could look to every point of the compass except a small section on the south-west. Here the trees rose behind them until the brow ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... man of temperate life? Could you read calm health in his cheek, flushed with ungovernable propensities of hatred for the human race? Did Muley Ismail's pulse beat evenly? was his skin transparent? did his eyes beam with healthfulness, and its invariable concomitants, cheerfulness ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott
... darkened the doorway, and a much larger and more full-blooded gentleman in an enormous periwig came in, fanning his flushed face with a military hat of the cut of Queen Anne. He carried his head well back like a soldier, and his hot face had even a look of arrogance, which was suddenly contradicted by his eyes, which were literally as humble as a dog's. His sword made a great clatter, as if the ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... lived in a far country a man and his wife, and they were very poor. Every morning the man went his way into the forest, and there he chopped wood until the sky in the west flushed crimson because of the joy it felt at having the great sun pass that way; and when the last rim of the red ball disappeared behind the line of the hills, the man would shoulder his ax ...
— Dreamland • Julie M. Lippmann
... and parks, wherever there are rocks to conceal or sterile wastes to beautify. Very slight encouragement induces it to run wild. There are great rocks in Central Park, New York, worth travelling miles to see in early May, when their stern faces are flushed and ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan


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