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flushed, ppl. a.|flʌʃt|
[f. flush v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Suffused with red or ruddy colour.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2576/4 A Maid-Servant..extremely red and flushed, round her Mouth. 1793Beddoes Lett. to Darwin 53 A medical friend..was much struck with the flushed appearance of my countenance. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iv. §39. 129 Flushed and melting spaces of colour. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal i, I knew what the flushed cheek..and the short cough meant.
2. Heated, excited.
1749Smollett Regicide iii. viii, Their flush'd intemperance will yield Occasion undisturbed. 1893Critic (Boston) 25 Mar. 184/1 The solitary caprice of a flushed fantasy. |