flushed
/flʌʃt/ · verb
Meaning
- To cause to take flight from concealment.
- To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To cause to blush.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- To excite, inflame.
- Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
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