outflush

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ flush.

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).
   • 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

outflush (plural outflushes)

1. A sudden glow of heat.

Anagrams

• flush out