Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FLUSHED
pp. 1. Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face. We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed.
2. Elated; excited; animated; as flushed with joy or success.
New American Oxford Dictionary
flushed
flushed |fləSHt flʌʃt | ▶adjective 1 (of a person's skin ) red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion: her flushed cheeks. 2 (of a person ) excited or elated by something: flushed with success, I was getting into my stride.
Oxford Dictionary
flushed
flushed |flʌʃt | ▶adjective 1 (of a person's skin ) red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion: her flushed cheeks. 2 (of a person ) excited or elated by something: flushed with success, I was getting into my stride.
American Oxford Thesaurus
flushed
flushed adjective 1 flushed faces: red, pink, ruddy, glowing, reddish, pinkish, rosy, florid, high-colored, healthy-looking, aglow, burning, feverish; blushing, red-faced, embarrassed, shamefaced. ANTONYMS pale. 2 flushed with success: elated, excited, thrilled, exhilarated, happy, delighted, overjoyed, joyous, gleeful, jubilant, exultant, ecstatic, euphoric, rapturous; informal blissed out, over the moon, high, on a high. ANTONYMS dismayed.
Oxford Thesaurus
flushed
flushed adjective 1 the children's happy, flushed faces: red, pink, ruddy, glowing, reddish, pinkish, florid, high-coloured, healthy-looking, aglow, burning, flaming, feverish, rubicund, roseate, rosy; blushing, red-faced, blowsy, embarrassed, shamefaced; archaic sanguine; rare erubescent, rubescent. ANTONYMS pale. 2 flushed with success, he was now getting into his stride: elated, thrilled, exhilarated, happy, delighted, overjoyed, joyous, gleeful, excited, animated, jubilant, exultant, ecstatic, euphoric, rapturous, in raptures, enraptured, intoxicated, beside oneself, transported, carried away, impassioned, in a frenzy, delirious, hysterical, wild, frenzied; informal blissed out, over the moon, high, on a high; N. Amer. informal wigged out; rare corybantic. ANTONYMS dismayed.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
flushed
flushed /-t /形容詞 〈顔が 〉【興奮などで 】赤みを帯びた, 上気した «with » .