Outflush

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sudden glow of heat.
Verb
  1. 1
    To flush out (something). transitive
  2. 2
    To flush or blush more brightly than (something). transitive

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From out- + flush.

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