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English
Etymology
From out- + flush.
Verb
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
outflush (plural outflushes)
- A sudden glow of heat.
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