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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 » .