Flushed

Definition: Flushed

Flushed

Adjective

1. Having the pinkish flush of health.

2. (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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flushed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Flushed

Boasting

Elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory;elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.

Cheerfulness

Elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing;elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing; cock-a-hoop.

Drunkenness

Woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed.

Excitation

Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.

Hope

Adjective: hoping; Verb: in hopes; Noun: hopeful, confident; secure; (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian.

Pride

Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.

Rejoicing

Adjective: rejoicing; Verb: jubilant, exultant, triumphant; flushed, elated, pleased, delighted, tickled pink.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Success

Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing.

Vanity

Adjective: vain, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious; puffed up, inflated, flushed.

Crosswords: Flushed

MaybeYou know what, maybe Jinx flushed it. I saw little Jinxy in there last night and he took a squattedrelieved himself (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

Your old man, Marty McFly Sr.? The man who took his life and flushed it completely down the toilet (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

The time you said you should of flushed me (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd, ("Killing Me Softly With His Song"; performing artist: Roberta Flack)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper (reference)

• Fright Club #4:I Know What You Flushed Last Summer (reference)

• What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Flushed Billy in hunting pose. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Her cheeks flushed at the name, and she felt afraid of something, though she knew not what

The child turned his back to the sun, which made his hair like threads of gold, and flushed the savage face of Jean Valjean with a lurid glow

When their faces had flushed with the struggle they drew apart, panting

Her pink flushed face was near to him, and her mouth was open a little

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Later it is harmlessly flushed out with urine. (references)

A hot flash begins with a feeling of heat in your face and upper body. The skin may appear flushed or red as blood vessels expand. (references)

Possibly 80 % of American women have them. Suddenly you feel heat in the upper part or all of your body. Your face and neck become flushed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flushed": become flushed ♦ flushed with victory ♦ get flushed ♦ red ruddy flushed empurpled. Additional references.

Beginning with "flushed": flushed-red.

Ending with "flushed": full-flushed, gas-flushed, High-flushed, hot-flushed, red-flushed, wine-flushed.

Albanian

skuqem (become flushed, become red, blush, color, colour, crimson, get red in the face, glow). (various references)

Bulgarian 

зачервявам се (become flushed, blush, fire, flush, purple, rouge). (various references)

Chinese 

酡 , 冲洗 (flush, Flushing, rinse, Swashed, Swashing). (various references)

Czech

spláchnout (become flushed, flush, swill, wash). (various references)

Danish

fuldtonet, fuldfarvet, ensfarvet. (various references)

Dutch

in de lengte doorstroomde staafbundel (longitudinally flushed rod cluster). (various references)

Finnish

punoittaa (be flushed, be red), hänen kasvonsa lehahtivat punaisiksi (her face flushed, she went red in the face). (various references)

French

les zones de résistivité différente peuvent être subdivisées en:boue de forage interne au puits,cake de boue,zone lessivée,zone de transition,"annulaire" dans certains cas(seulement pour certaines formations pétrolifères ou gazéifères)et zone no (and the uncontaminated zone;the invaded zone includes the flushed zone and the transition zone, the flushed zone). (various references)

German

scheuchte auf, glühend (aglow, ardent, blazing, blistering, broiling, burning, consuming, fervent, fiery, flaming, gloweringly, glowing, incandescent, live, red-hot, torrid, torridly), errötet (blushed, blushes), durchflutet. (various references)

Greek 

ξαναμμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסומק (blushing, red, rubicund). (various references)

Hungarian

kipirult, felhevült (warm). (various references)

Italian

le zone di diversa resistivit� possono essere cosi suddivise:fango nel pozzo,pannello del fango(mud cake),zona completamente invasa,zona di transizione o "annulus"(presente soltanto in certi strati ad olio o gas),e la zona non contaminata;la zona invasa (a transition zone, and the uncontaminated zone;the invaded zone includes the flushed zone and the transition zone, in some cases an "annulus"(present only in certain oil-or gas-bearing formations), the flushed zone, the mud cake, the zones of different resistivity may be divided into the drilling mud within the borehole). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

真っ赤 (deep red). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まっか (deep red). (various references)

Korean 

내뿜�" (exhaled, Puffed). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushedflay.(various references)

Russian 

раскраснеться (become flushed, get red in the face). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zajapuren, ispran. (various references)

Spanish

las zonas de diferente resistividad pueden subdividirse en: lodo dentro del pozo de perforacion, costra de lodo, zona lavada, zona de transicion, en algunos casos un "annulus"(presente solamente en determinadas formaciones de petroleo o de gas) y zona no (a transition zone, and the uncontaminated zone;the invaded zone includes the flushed zone and the transition zone, in some cases an "annulus"(present only in certain oil-or gas-bearing formations), the flushed zone, the mud cake, the zones of different resistivity may be divided into the drilling mud within the borehole), congestionarse (get flushed). (various references)

Swedish

bli generad (become flushed). (various references)

Misspellings

"Flushed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flashen, floused, flused, Fushe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lushed.

-2 letters: delfs, duels, dulse, feuds, flesh, flued, flues, flush, fuels, fused, fusel, leuds, ludes, shelf, slued.

-3 letters: delf, dels, duel, dues, edhs, elds, feds, fehs, feud, feus, fled, flue, flus, fuds, fuel, fuse, held, hued, hues, leud, lude, lues, lush, self, shed, shul, sled, slue, sued, used.

-4 letters: del, due, duh, edh, eds.

+1 letter: shuffled.

+3 letters: flourished, reshuffled.

+4 letters: blueshifted, buffleheads, heedfulness.

+5 letters: shuffleboard.