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Flushed vs Aflush - What's the difference?

flushed | aflush |

As adjectives the difference between flushed and aflush

is that flushed is red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc while aflush is (archaic|or|poetic) flushed, blushing.

As a verb flushed

is (flush).

flushed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed ; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.

    Synonyms

    * blushing * red * red-faced

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flush)

    • 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. " }}