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FLUSHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flushed mean?
• FLUSHED (adjective)
The adjective FLUSHED has 2 senses:
1. having the pinkish flush of health
2. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Familiarity information: FLUSHED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the pinkish flush of health
Synonyms:
flushed; rose-cheeked; rosy; rosy-cheeked
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Synonyms:
crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened
Context example:
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Confess, Marianne, is not there something interesting to you in the flushed cheek, hollow eye, and quick pulse of a fever?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He caught himself imagining the wonder of a caress from such a hand, and flushed guiltily.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His pale cheeks flushed with pleasure at hearing that his work was known to me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her eyes were flushed with crying.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was a face that rarely displayed colour, but to-night it was flushed and vivacious.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On the Tuesday, Peter Carey was in one of his blackest moods, flushed with drink and as savage as a dangerous wild beast.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A question about whether an individual appears or has appeared flushed or red.
(Look Flushed or Red, NCI Thesaurus)
At Silver's polite salute he somewhat flushed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
From the flushed faces and angry glances it was evident that the question was one upon which there was strong feeling upon both sides.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Nigel looked about him at his shattered ranks, and his face flushed with a soldier's pride.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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