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Webster 1828 Edition

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Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face. We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed.

Elated; excited; animated; as flushed with joy or success.

flushed ‎(comparative more flushed, superlative most flushed)

Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
  Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.

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