outflush
English
Etymology
Verb
outflush (third-person singular simple present outflushes, present participle outflushing, simple past and past participle outflushed)
- (transitive) To flush out.
- (transitive) To flush or blush more brightly than.
- 1873, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest (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 […]
- 1873, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest (page 38)
Noun
outflush (plural outflushes)