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FLUSHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Example:
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Synonyms:
crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened
Classified under:
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the pinkish flush of health
Synonyms:
flushed; rose-cheeked; rosy; rosy-cheeked
Classified under:
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb flush
Context examples:
When at length she put her arm through mine, to be taken to the drawing-room, her charming little face was flushed, and had never been so pretty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of course they bumped their heads smartly together, saw stars, and both came up flushed and laughing, without the ball, to resume their seats, wishing they had not left them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You tremble and become flushed whenever Miss Oliver enters the schoolroom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Waldron, very flushed and warlike, continued his observations.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her cheeks flushed at the name, and she felt afraid of something, though she knew not what.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
With a cheek flushed by hope, and an eye straining with curiosity, her fingers grasped the handle of a drawer and drew it forth.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The American, a quiet, businesslike young man, with a clean-shaven, hatchet face, flushed up at the words of commendation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The virus has a two-fold effect, not only irritating fat cells and causing them to become inflamed, but also preventing them dying and being flushed away by the body.
(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Her lips, too, were bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A condition in which one side of the face is flushed, does not produce sweat, and has a constricted pupil and drooping eyelid.
(Horner syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
