flushed
Meaning of flushed
adjective
- (of a person's skin) red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion.
her flushed cheeks
- (of a person) excited or elated by something.
flushed with success, I was getting into my stride
- (of a person's skin, face, etc.) become red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion.
Rachel flushed angrily
- cleanse (something, especially a toilet) by causing large quantities of water to pass through it.
she flushed the loo
the nurse flushed out the catheter
- drive (a bird, especially a game bird, or an animal) from its cover.
the grouse were flushed from the woods
- (of a plant) send out fresh shoots.
the plant had started to flush by late March
Middle English (in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring up’, especially of a bird ‘fly up suddenly’): symbolic, fl- frequently beginning words connected with sudden movement; perhaps influenced by flash1 and blush.
verb, past tense
fill in (a joint) level with a surface.
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘perfect, lacking nothing’): probably related to flush1.
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Hyphenation of flushed
flushed
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- flushed is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
flushed synonyms
Meaning rose-cheeked:
Meaning crimson:
Meaning ecstatically happy:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure:
Meaning very happy, animated, or elated:
Meaning feeling or showing pleasure or contentment:
Meaning feeling or showing great pleasure:
Meaning extremely happy:
Meaning full of happiness and joy:
Meaning exuberantly or triumphantly joyful:
Meaning very enthusiastic and eager:
Meaning full of life or excitement; lively:
Meaning feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph:
Meaning triumphantly happy:
Meaning feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement:
Meaning characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness:
Meaning characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm:
Meaning give intense pleasure or joy to:
Meaning drunk or under the influence of drugs:
Meaning take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:
Meaning filled with or showing great emotion:
Meaning in an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence; affected by delirium:
Meaning affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion:
Meaning (of an animal or plant) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated:
Meaning wildly excited or uncontrolled:
Meaning of great vertical extent:
Meaning wild; frenzied:
Meaning show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face:
Meaning (of a person) blush:
Meaning colour (something) slightly; tinge:
Meaning cloak or envelop:
Meaning become pink:
Meaning make ruddy in colour:
Meaning expressing great praise:
Meaning having a red tinge; slightly red:
Meaning having a red or flushed complexion:
Meaning glowing:
Meaning on fire:
Meaning burning fiercely and emitting flames:
Meaning having or showing the symptoms of a fever:
Meaning (especially of someone's face) having a ruddy complexion:
Meaning rose-coloured:
Meaning red in the face from shyness, embarrassment, or shame:
Meaning coarse, untidy, and red-faced (typically used of a woman):
Meaning feeling or showing embarrassment:
Meaning feeling or expressing shame or embarrassment:
Meaning optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation:
Meaning reddening; blushing:
Meaning operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle:
Meaning pursue in order to catch or catch up with:
Meaning make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force:
Meaning knock or force out of position:
Meaning officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization:
Meaning make (someone) afraid or anxious:
Meaning cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten:
flushed antonyms
Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:
Meaning become pale in one's face from shock or fear:
Words that rhyme with flushed
shed, abashed, alewashed, ashed, backlashed, backwashed, bashed, bedashed, besplashed, brainwashed, brashed, cashed, clashed, colourwashed, crashed, dashed, deashed, earbashed, encashed, fashed, flashed, gashed, gatecrashed, gnashed, greenwashed, hashed, interdashed, kourbashed, kurbashed, lashed, leashed, mashed, outflashed, pashed, pebbledashed, plashed, potashed, prewashed, quashed, rainwashed, rashed, rehashed, rewashed, sashed, shashed, siwashed, slashed, smashed, snashed, spatterdashed
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