outflush
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
outflush (third-person singular simple present outflushes, present participle outflushing, simple past and past participle outflushed)
- (transitive) To flush out (something).
- (transitive) To flush or blush more brightly than (something).
- 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:
- 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.
Noun edit
outflush (plural outflushes)