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flushed

/flʌʃt/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To cause to take flight from concealment.
  2. To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
  3. To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
  4. Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
  5. To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
  6. To cause to blush.
  7. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
  8. To excite, inflame.
  9. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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