flushed
adj/flʌʃt/
1
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
- Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
- Derived terms
- nonflushed, unflushed