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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unflush en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + flush.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To lose a flush of colour.
    • [The old man] stood grinning like a gnome, obviously delighted to watch me flush and ruffle and then gradually unflush and unruffle. 2000, Robert Grant, The Gift of Lack: Short Stories and Other Writings, page 73:

Forms

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unflushing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unflushes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unflushed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unflushed Tense=Past lexicographic