- having rosy or reddish skin as a result of exertion, cold, embarrassment, fever, etc.: Common food allergy symptoms include a flushed face, hives, or a red and itchy rash around the mouth or eyes.
- flooded or sprayed thoroughly with water, as for cleansing: Next, disinfect the flushed wound with hydrogen peroxide.Before adding antifreeze to a freshly flushed cooling system, drain the radiator of water and close the petcock.
- (of a sewer, toilet, etc.) washed out by a sudden rush of water: Parts of the secret document were found by a lab technician in an improperly flushed toilet.
- having been rushed through a toilet, sewer, etc., along with water in the course of washing it out: The plumber told us that the cause of our slow drain was a flushed sock.
- animated, excited, or inflamed: I walked away from the conversation with a flushed sense of power.
- Computers.
- (of a buffer, cache, hard drive, etc.) emptied by deleting the data or transferring it to permanent storage: The commit-to-disk feature ensures that the data from a flushed buffer is not lost in the event of a system failure.
- (of data) deleted or transferred to more permanent storage: If needed again, the flushed data can be found and reloaded from the cloud storage system.
- the simple past tense and past participle of flush1.
- (of a game bird or other animal) driven from cover so that it flies up or springs forth suddenly; roused: Jim’s shot brought down the flushed pheasant before anyone else could get a shot off.
- (of a person) forced out of hiding: The snipers focused on breaks in the foliage where a flushed fugitive might be revealed.
- the simple past tense and past participle of flush3.
