Flushed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Flushed	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flushed adj having the pinkish flush of health [syn: flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked] (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red- faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" Synonym(s): crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flush \Flush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flushing}.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. [fb]84.] 1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. --Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. --Mortimer. 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. --Milton. 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. Flushing from one spray unto another. --W. Browne.