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Flushed   /fləʃt/   Listen
verb
Flush  v. t.  
1.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
2.
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. "Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek." "Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
3.
To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. "How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!"
4.
To excite; to animate; to stir. "Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition."
5.
To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
6.
To cause to flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.
To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.


Flush  v. i.  (past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)  
1.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. "The flushing noise of many waters." "It flushes violently out of the cock."
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."
4.
To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. "Flushing from one spray unto another."


Flush  v. i.  (Mining)
(a)
To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
(b)
To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.





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"Flushed" Quotes from Famous Books



... flushed. "Oh, indeed!" she said. And during the short remainder of their walk to the house ...
— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton
... the prize which we sought. But there was a place where no feelings of rivalry were found, and where those whom the world overlooked, would be sure of a friendly greeting. Whether pale and wan by study, care, or sickness, or flushed with health and flattering success, we were sure that ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders
... Contessina flushed with pleasure, participating in the delight of the young priest to whom she had grown much attached. And this success of his, coming in the midst of her own felicity, acquired extraordinary importance in her eyes as if it were an augury of complete success ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... great interest——" Then he paused and flushed. "But it grows late, and I must bid thee farewell. Give my respects to the little girl and say ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... Norah flushed; but she was hardened to her mistress's manner. "Only to ask if I may go out for a little while to see the decorations and hear ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown


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