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outflush

outflush verb: to flush out (something).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To flush out (something).
  2. (transitive) 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, […]...

Noun

outflush (plural outflushes)

  1. A sudden glow of heat.

Forms of outflush

Verb
third-person singular presentoutflushes
present participleoutflushing
past participleoutflushed
pastoutflushed
Noun
pluraloutflushes

Origin of outflush

From out- + flush.

Questions about outflush

What does outflush mean?
Outflush means to flush out (something).
What part of speech is outflush?
Outflush can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of outflush?
The past tense of outflush is outflushed.

Words near outflush in the dictionary

  1. outflown
  2. outflows
  3. outflue
  4. outflues
  5. outflung
  6. outflush
  7. outflushed
  8. outflushes
  9. outflushing
  10. outflux
  11. outfluxed

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