Dictionary Entry

flushing

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈflʌʃɪŋ/Used In Literature ↓

To cause to take flight from concealment.

In a Sentence

“The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. flushingflushing face

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Poetry examples for “flushing”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

That moves me like the Child
Who in the flushing darkness troubled lies,
Inventing lonely prophecies,

Said, with hot and angry temper
Flushing in his cheek,
"Olaf! for so great a K‰mper

And the warlocks are no more,"
Flushing with anger
Said Sigurd the Bishop.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart
Made purple riot: then doth he propose

For, Allah! sure thy lips are flame:
What fever in thy veins is flushing?
My own have nearly caught the same,

I came! I saw thee rise! the blood
Poured flushing to thy languid cheek.
Locked in each other’s arms we stood,

Her neck is like white melilote
Flushing for pleasure of the sun,
The throbbing of the linnet’s throat

A tear-drop fell upon her dress.
With grief her flushing brow was darkened;
One sob that she could not repress