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Definition of Flushed
1. Adjective. Having the pinkish flush of health.
Similar to: Healthy
Derivative terms: Rosiness, Rosiness
2. Adjective. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion. "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
Similar to: Colored, Colorful, Coloured
Derivative terms: Redness
Definition of Flushed
1. Adjective. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ''flush'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flushed
1. flush [v] - See also: flush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flushed
Literary usage of Flushed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"At the door Dante turned round violently and shouted down the room, her cheeks
flushed and quivering with rage: — Devil out of hell! We won! ..."
2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... flushed with enthusiasm, brandished their sabres, vociferating: "Long live
Reform!" And every time the two lovers heard this word they laughed. ..."
3. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"~ì in the red clay along the groove a man's nailed ts had made. They were hot
and flushed. ... flushed ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"Thereat I flushed up to my eyes, which at the same time filled with tears, and
said to him : " My lord, if I tell youi most illustrious Excellency the truth ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"Glover proposed to employ them in the first instance in some desultory raids,
till, flushed with victory, their unwillingness would be overcome ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"The deepest crimson flushed on —Mr. _ * . т Ч I 1 _ _ J — i.— . of questioning
like this. W "I have thought of you я groat ' deal, ..."
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