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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flushed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cheek
▪ The heavy brown head lolled a flushed cheek on the red cushion that supported his bandaged shoulder.
▪ I won't remember it, thought Fenella, leaning her flushed cheek against the cold window.
▪ And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope.
face
▪ Vass regarded her flushed face, then let his eyes drift slowly down the length of her slender, dressing-gown-clad figure.
▪ With dark hair rumpled by the wind, flushed face and those brilliantly blue eyes, he looked very handsome.
▪ The fun centred on a stocky individual with a flushed face and sandy hair.
▪ Chill at 10 or 11 am; starting in the extremities, with a throbbing head and flushed face.
▪ Lily flinched from his warm flushed face, his satisfied glow.
▪ Doubles up and screams with a hot, flushed face and sweat.
▪ He glanced down at her flushed face in its frame of wild hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nona was feverish and flushed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A flushed and jolly character raises his glass among friends and family - how real, how reliable is that evidence?
▪ He lowered his head on to the table; the marble felt fresh in contact with his flushed skin.
▪ Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes sparkled, while the deep rose pink of the bodice suited her to perfection.
▪ Her face was flushed, her mouth slightly open, her teeth lying in a glass on the night table.
▪ Soon Rainbow's cheeks are flushed, her eyes are sparkling.
▪ There on the settee, looking a little flushed, sat Rosemary.
▪ With dark hair rumpled by the wind, flushed face and those brilliantly blue eyes, he looked very handsome.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flushed

Flush \Flush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. [root]84.]

  1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

    The flushing noise of many waters.
    --Boyle.

    It flushes violently out of the cock.
    --Mortimer.

  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.
    --Milton.

  4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

    Flushing from one spray unto another.
    --W. Browne.

Wiktionary
flushed
  1. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc. v

  2. (en-past of: flush)

WordNet
flushed
  1. adj. having the pinkish flush of health [syn: rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked]

  2. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced]

Wikipedia
Flushed (film)

Flushed is a 1999 American comedy film written, edited and directed by Carrie Ansell. This comedy film producer is Ken Greenblatt.

Flushed (game show)

Flushed is an Australian children's game show airs on 7TWO on 16 March 2015 at 7am, It hosted by Zindzi Okenyo, The Second season begins on 16 May 2016, hosted by Emma Palmer.

Category:7TWO shows Category:Australian children's television series Category:Australian game shows Category:2015 Australian television series debuts

Usage examples of "flushed".

The Zouaves, flushed with success, attempted to carry the Round Tower with a rush, and swept up to the abattis surrounding it.

Shortly Alfred backed off her and got to his feet, leaving her asprawl, carelessly naked, her pale skin flushed pink throughout, eyes closed, smile pursing upper lips whilst semen glittered between lower.

Ronald said, as he looked at the prince as he was pacing up and down the deck with the Duke of Athole, talking rapidly, his face flushed with enthusiasm, his clustering hair blown backward by the wind.

She flushed pink to have him stare at her so, and in response to that he felt again the sudden collision of his love for her and his total benightedness as to what she truly was.

Get rid of Ed and find a spot to hide Capri until we flushed out the real killer.

In the thick of it, her face flushed with delight and her eyes sparkling with pleasure, swung the elegant figure of Christiana Fitzwaryn.

The left side flushed more than the right In connection with this case may be mentioned one by White of Harvard, a case of unilateral yellow chromidrosis in a man.

Taggert house two hours later, there was dirt on their clothes, cockleburs in their hair, and their faces were flushed.

Johnny said, raising his head, his face flushed and his hair mashed to a conehead point.

Suddenly the music stopped, and flushed, laughing, and fanning themselves with their pocket handkerchiefs, the Crabapple Blossoms flung themselves down on the floor, against a pile of bulging sacks in one of the corners, indifferent for probably the first time in their lives to possible damage to their frocks.

He surveyed her round, childlike, flushed features and the downbent head.

Briana had flushed in furious embarrassment that Drago and Lasan had dared to inform her of that.

Several officers, with flushed and weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking.

He was slightly flushed after galloping two miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own.

The Governor had flushed, bowed as to superiors, apologized again and hurried off disgusted that the gai-jin were still in place--naturally every civilized person from here to Yedo had seen the fires and presumed the gai-jin, those left, would be licking their burns, boarding their ships to join the exodus and sail away.