1. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
   "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment";
   - crimson, red, reddened, red-faced
    
2. Having a red face from embarrassment, shame, agitation or emotional upset
   "her flushed beau";
   - blushful, blushing, red-faced, ablush, erubescent
    
3. Having the pinkish flush of health
   "The flushed children played happily in the snow";
   - rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked

1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
   "The girl flushed when a young man whistled as she walked by";
   - blush, crimson, redden
    
2. Glow or cause to glow with warm colour or light
   "the sky flushed with rosy splendour"
    
3. Cause to flow through something
   "The garbage flushed down the river"
    
4. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
   "flush the wound with antibiotics";
   - scour, purge
    
5. Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
   "flush the meadows"
    
6. Irrigate with water from a sluice
   "They flushed the fields with fresh water";
   - sluice
    
7. Make level or straight
   "The carpenter flushed the joints of the cabinet";
   - level, even out, even

See also: colored [US], colorful [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn], discomposed, healthy

Type of: change surface, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], course, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], douse, dowse, drench, feed, flow, glow, irrigate, rinse, rinse off, run, soak, sop, souse, water

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