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say it: fluhsht
flushed is an adjective meaning "having the pinkish flush of health". It is pronounced /ˈflʌʃt/ — fluhsht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
having the pinkish flush of health
(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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flushed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.