Synonyms of flushed

flushed 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in pink

Related Words

• pink
• pinkish
• warm
• blushing
• brown
• blowsy
• tanned
• bronzed
• suntanned
• bloomy
• ruddy
• red
• rosy
• flush
• cherubic
• blooming
• sanguine
• florid
• rubicund
• glowing
• full-blooded

Dissimilar Words

• pale
• pallid
• sallow
• livid
• wan
• ashen
• peaked
• pasty
• lurid
• ashy
• palish
• blanched
• white
• mealy
• doughy
• waxen
• peaky
• paled
• waxy
• whitened
• sallowish
• sick
• sickly
• anemic
• bloodless
• cadaverous
• white-faced
• whey-faced

2

as in rinsed

Related Words

• rinsed
• irrigated
• moist
• sluiced
• steeped
• clammy
• damp
• laved
• humid
• aqueous
• splashed
• dank
• dipped
• dampish
• boggy
• hydrated
• flooded
• submerged
• washed
• bathed
• wettish
• soaked
• dripping
• overflowed
• seepy
• saturated
• squashy
• drowned
• drenched
• sloppy
• watered
• dunked
• miry
• semimoist
• soaking
• logged
• sodden
• soggy
• waterlogged
• swamped
• sopping
• awash
• inundated
• bedraggled
• wet
• deluged
• doused
• soused
• watery
• soppy
• saturate
• water-soaked

Dissimilar Words

• dry
• arid
• unwatered
• waterless
• bone-dry
• dehydrated
• watertight
• waterproof
• baked
• water-resistant
• hyperarid
• water-repellent
• thirsty
• parched
• ultradry
• sunbaked
• wrung
• droughty
• sere
• freeze-dried

flushed

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verb

past tense of flush

1

as in washed

to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse

use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rinsed
• washed
• flooded
• irrigated
• sluiced
• washed out
• engulfed
• flowed
• inundated
• deluged
• swamped
• gushed
• soaked
• saturated
• rushed
• streamed
• drenched
• splashed
• hosed
• douched
• sloshed
• doused

2

as in blushed

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)

he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blushed
• glowed
• reddened
• crimsoned
• bloomed
• colored
• turned color
• rouged
• humiliated
• mortified
• disconcerted
• embarrassed
• abashed
• fazed
• ruddled
• chagrined
• discomfited
• incarnadined

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flushed

Adjective

At Marin’s home, McNulty allegedly used his credit cards, changed the locks while he was hospitalized and flushed cloth napkins down the toilet, clogging the pipes, Vanity Fair reported. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026

Previously, the city burned flushed waste, leaving an odor around Blue River and I-435. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2026

Verb

His cheeks and hands were flushed pink with blood beneath the skin. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Above them, as part of the cooling operations, heat exchangers use water from the Seine, which is regularly flushed back slightly warmer into the river. — Francois De Beaupuy, Fortune, 28 June 2026