1. (

• blush ,
• crimson ,
• flush ,
• redden

) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" ;

2. (

• flush

) flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river" ;

3. (

• flush

) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" ;

4. (

• flush ,
• level ,
• even_out ,
• even

) make level or straight; "level the ground" ;

5. (

• flush ,
• scour ,
• purge ,

) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" ;

6. (

• sluice ,
• flush ,

) irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" ;

7. (

• flush ,

) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows" ;

1. (

• flushed ,
• rose-cheeked ,
• rosy ,
• rosy-cheeked

) having the pinkish flush of health ;

2. (

• crimson ,
• red ,
• reddened ,
• red-faced ,
• flushed

) (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" ;