<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having rosy or reddish skin as a result of exertion, cold, embarrassment, fever, etc.: Common food allergy symptoms include a flushed face, hives, or a red and itchy rash around the mouth or eyes.</li><li>flooded or sprayed thoroughly with water, as for cleansing: Next, disinfect the flushed wound with hydrogen peroxide.</li><li>(of a sewer, toilet, etc.) washed out by a sudden rush of water: Parts of the secret document were found by a lab technician in an improperly flushed toilet.</li><li>having been rushed through a toilet, sewer, etc., along with water in the course of washing it out: The plumber told us that the cause of our slow drain was a flushed sock.</li><li>animated, excited, or inflamed: I walked away from the conversation with a flushed sense of power.</li><li>Computers: (of a buffer, cache, hard drive, etc.) emptied by deleting the data or transferring it to permanent storage: The commit-to-disk feature ensures that the data from a flushed buffer is not lost in the event of a system failure.</li><li>(of data) deleted or transferred to more permanent storage: If needed again, the flushed data can be found and reloaded from the cloud storage system.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>the simple past tense and past participle of flush.</li></ul>