outflush

verb, noun — 3 senses

outflush

verb

Etymology From out- + flush.

1

To flush out (something).

2

To flush or blush more brightly than (something).

  • The maiden's face was turned away; but one hand lay in her lover's; with the other she was drawing close the loose folds of her mantle; the play of colour on her cheeks outflushed the tints of autumn; and not a doomed leaf of the forest fluttered more than her young heart.1865 May – 1866 August, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Love in the Forest”, in Cradock Nowell. A Tale of the New Forest. […], revised edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 38:

outflush

noun

Etymology From out- + flush.

1

A sudden glow of heat.

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