"flushed" in the verb sense

1. blush, crimson, flush, redden

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

2. flush

flow freely

"The garbage flushed down the river"

3. flush

glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

"the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

4. flush, level, even out, even

make level or straight

"level the ground"

5. flush, scour, purge

rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

"flush the wound with antibiotics"

"purge the old gas tank"

6. sluice, flush

irrigate with water from a sluice

"sluice the earth"

7. flush

cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

"flush the meadows"

"flushed" in the adjective sense

1. flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked

having the pinkish flush of health

2. crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed

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"

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