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Aflash vs Aflush - What's the difference?

aflash | aflush |

As adjectives the difference between aflash and aflush

is that aflash is flashing while aflush is (archaic|or|poetic) flushed, blushing.

aflash

English

Adjective

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  • flashing
  • * (Mark Twain), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    • Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash . Yes, it was a fine sight; I hadn't ever seen anything to beat it.

    aflush

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic, or, poetic) flushed, blushing
  • * {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Thomas De Witt Talmage, title=New Tabernacle Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That is the resurrection angel, his lips still aquiver and his cheek aflush with the blast that shattered the cemeteries and woke the dead. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Various, title=Different Girls, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As the old mother sits there so quiet in her corner, her body worn to a silver thread, and hardly anything left of her but her indomitable eyes, it is hard, at least for a young thing of nineteen, all aflush and aflurry with her new party gown, to realize that that old mother is infinitely more romantic than herself. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Go ahead," the quarter-deck bade him, seeing him aflush with information. " }}