unflush

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flush

Verb

unflush (third-person singular simple present unflushes, present participle unflushing, simple past and past participle unflushed)

1. (intransitive) To lose a flush of colour.
   • 2000, Robert Grant, The Gift of Lack: Short Stories and Other Writings, page 73:

     [The old man] stood grinning like a gnome, obviously delighted to watch me flush and ruffle and then gradually unflush and unruffle.