flushed
adjective
ˈfləsht 
: tinged with red especially in the face (as from shame, illness, heat, or physical exertion)
Her mother, inclined at first to attribute her complaints to moping, took a second look at her flushed cheeks and put her to bed.
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George SpeareThe man opposite looked flushed. … The broken veins on his cheeks were probably a sign of bad circulation and excessive drinking. Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham
Word History
First Known Use
1623, in the meaning defined above
flushed 1 of 2
adjective
1
as in blushing
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- blushing
- pink
- pinkish
- warm
- brown
- blowsy
- tanned
- bloomy
- bronzed
- suntanned
- blowzy
- ruddy
- flush
- red
- rubicund
- rosy
- blooming
- cherubic
- sanguine
- glowing
- florid
- full-blooded
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- pale
- sallow
- pallid
- livid
- wan
- ashen
- peaked
- blanched
- pasty
- palish
- lurid
- paled
- whitened
- waxen
- white
- ashy
- doughy
- mealy
- waxy
- peaky
- sallowish
- sick
- sickly
- anemic
- bloodless
- cadaverous
- white-faced
- whey-faced
2
as in rinsed
Synonyms & Similar Words
- rinsed
- sluiced
- irrigated
- laved
- steeped
- moist
- splashed
- clammy
- damp
- dipped
- washed
- aqueous
- humid
- dampish
- dunked
- overflowed
- flooded
- submerged
- dank
- soaked
- hydrated
- bathed
- boggy
- drowned
- wettish
- dripping
- drenched
- seepy
- saturated
- watered
- inundated
- swamped
- deluged
- doused
- logged
- sloppy
- semimoist
- soaking
- miry
- sodden
- squashy
- awash
- waterlogged
- soggy
- sopping
- soused
- bedraggled
- saturate
- wet
- dowsed
- watery
- soppy
- water-soaked
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dry
- arid
- unwatered
- waterless
- dehydrated
- watertight
- baked
- waterproof
- thirsty
- parched
- ultradry
- bone-dry
- hyperarid
- wrung
- sunbaked
- sere
- droughty
- sear
- water-resistant
- water-repellent
- freeze-dried
flushed
2 of 2verb
1
as in washed
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink Synonyms & Similar Words
- rinsed
- washed
- flooded
- sluiced
- irrigated
- soaked
- flowed
- gushed
- splashed
- washed out
- engulfed
- inundated
- drenched
- swamped
- douched
- deluged
- saturated
- hosed
- sloshed
- rushed
- streamed
- doused
- dowsed
2
as in blushed
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment Synonyms & Similar Words
- blushed
- glowed
- reddened
- crimsoned
- bloomed
- rouged
- colored
- mortified
- humiliated
- disconcerted
- turned color
- abashed
- embarrassed
- discomfited
- ruddled
- fazed
- chagrined
- incarnadined