outflush

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verb

To flush out (something).

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Meanings

verboutflush (third-person singular simple present outflushes, present participle outflushing, simple past and past participle outflushed)

present singular third person outflushes · participle present outflushing · participle past outflushed · past outflushed

  1. transitiveTo flush out (something).
  2. transitiveTo 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
nounoutflush (plural outflushes)

plural outflushes

  1. A sudden glow of heat.

Origin

From out- + flush.

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APA

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MLA

“outflush.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outflush. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outflush,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outflush.

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