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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.]
 1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
    The flushing noise of many waters.   --Boyle.
    It flushes violently out of the cock.   --Mortimer.
 2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
 3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
    In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.   --Milton.
 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
    Flushing from one spray unto another.   --W. Browne.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 flushed
      adj 1: having the pinkish flush of health [syn: rose-cheeked, rosy,
              rosy-cheeked]
      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" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced]