flushed
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- v turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- v flow freely
The garbage flushed down the river - v glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
the sky flushed with rosy splendor - v make level or straight
- v rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- v irrigate with water from a sluice
- v cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- s having the pinkish flush of health
- s (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
- The Potomac reaches the nation's capital as a pleasant stream, and leaves it stinking from the 240 million gallons of wastes that are flushed into it daily.
- The mustangs are flushed from their hilly retreats by low-flying airplanes, whose pilots pursue the animals across the prairies until they are near exhaustion.
- Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers who need to be particularly sensitive to, say, a child flushed with fever, have developed a sensitivity to reddish changes in skin .