overflushes

Verb

overflush (third-person singular simple present overflushes, present participle overflushing, simple past and past participle overflushed)

1. To flood with too much liquid while cleansing.
   • It is a bad plan to overflush ewes, as they usually suffer more from loss of flesh during winter. The best plan is to get them fleshy, and then keep them thriving whilst with the ram.1894, Henry J. Webb, Advanced Agriculture, page 537
2. To flush too many toilets.
   • No substance goes out from you by perspiration, except the noxious matter that you ought to get rid of; and you might as well ask if the dinners of a city might not be diminished were its sewers overflushed.1865, David Urquhart, John Fife, Manual of the Turkish Bath, page 21
3. To flood or inundate.
   • But Men when overflush'd with Drink, Are feldom capable to think.1725, Weighley, alias Wild, page 8
4. To cover with or suffuse with a tinge or glow of color.
   • […] still they have a fragrance of nature about them, and a freshness, such as Scottish noses snuff up from bleak moors and green fields, envying not at all the strong aroma that flows from exuberant fields overflushed with the living gold and purple of a rich tropical vegetation.1854, The North British Review - Volume 20, page 149
5. To cover the face with blushing or a flush.
   • When Bernard de Avelyne concluded his ballad of Chivalry, the brightness that overflushed his face became gradually darker, his palsied hands forsook the harp, he buried his face in his hands and his hoary hair, and seemed to labour under that bodily as well as mental depression which sometimes...1820 December, “Recollections of Mark Macrabin, The Cameronian”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 328
6. To suffuse.
   • Men, it is true, have probably far exceeded them in the actual amount of verse overflushed with feeling which they have created.1865, F.T. Palgrave, “Women and the Fine Arts”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 12, page 214

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