Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In calicoprinting, spread beyond the limits of the pattern: said of a color.
Wiktionary
- adj. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of flush.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- adj. having the pinkish flush of health
Examples
“His face flushed from the drug and a mad grin spread across his features.”
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“Finding our way back home, chilled to the bone, our cheeks and noses flushed from the fresh air, to find a pot of hot coffee and a warm apple tart on the table.”
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“The next year, hunting the same bottom, another bird (maybe the same one; who knows?) flushed from the very same hole.”
“She rotates on the spot, eyes wild, face flushed from the ovens heat.”
“And if you think Southern racism has been flushed from the Democratic Party, I suggest you look around a little.”
“Her skin flushed, her eyes widened, her shoulders rolled.”
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“Her cheeks flushed from the steam of the pudding saucepan, Aunt Brigid glowed with Christmas cheer, and she did her best to instill the same in her young nephew. âMummy calls him Santa Claus, Auntie. â Oscar loved his aunt, and she told him marvelous stories of faeries and goblins and magical things.”
“Diuretic properties of caffeine cause potassium and other minerals to be flushed from the body.”
“He watched a flock of dope fiends suddenly flee the alley, like ducks flushed from the reeds.”
“Frye went 4-for-10 for 34 yards, threw an interception and held the ball way too long while being flushed from the pocket.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flushed’.
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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Words of seduction
nibble, caress, writhing, whisper, penetrate, lick, flushed, passionate, embrace, nudity, intimacy, tempt and 17 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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deliciously descriptive
words I use in my writing to paint pictures.
grey, cinnamon, pale, filigree, wistful, embrace, affection, spatter, glisten, sated, shiver, graceful and 26 more...
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lovely words
talon, flightless, feathered, coral, innocence, breathing, golden, scent, crinkle, colors, flushed, seamist and 57 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Complexion
Describing blushes, blanches; plus skin colors
sallow, coquelicot, ecru, ashen, pallid, cerise, croydon-sanguine, tallow-colored, tallow, rutilant, candicant, ruddy and 22 more...
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urrbody in the club get...
plastered, hammered, shitfaced, blotto, drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, crocked, flushed, wasted, totaled, soused and 22 more...
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