Flushed vs. Pale — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flushed and Pale
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Flushed
To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush.
Pale
Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment
Choose pale floral patterns for walls
Flushed
To glow, especially with a reddish color
The sky flushed pink at dawn.
Pale
Inferior or unimpressive
The new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses
Flushed
To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.
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Pale
Become pale in one's face from shock or fear
I paled at the thought of what she might say
Flushed
To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet.
Pale
Seem or become less important
All else pales by comparison
Flushed
To cause to redden or glow.
Pale
A wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.
Flushed
To excite or elate
The team was flushed with the success of victory.
Pale
An area within determined bounds, or subject to a particular jurisdiction.
Flushed
To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water
Flush a toilet.
Flush a wound with iodine.
Pale
A broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.
Flushed
To drive away with a rapid flow of a liquid
Flush debris from a pipe.
Pale
A stake or pointed stick; a picket.
Flushed
To remove or eliminate
"The weakness in demand and productivity will at least ... flush out some of the inflation premium that has been built into interest rates" (Fortune).
Pale
A fence enclosing an area.
Flushed
To frighten (a game bird, for example) from cover.
Pale
The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.
Flushed
To drive or force into the open
The police fired tear gas to flush out the terrorists.
Pale
A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.
Flushed
To dart out or fly from cover.
Pale
Pale The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.
Flushed
A flooding flow or rush, as of water.
Pale
(Heraldry) A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.
Flushed
The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing.
Pale
To enclose with pales; fence in.
Flushed
A blush or glow
"here and there a flush of red on the lip of a little cloud" (Willa Cather).
Pale
To cause to turn pale.
Flushed
A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
Pale
To become pale; blanch
Paled with fright.
Flushed
A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.
Pale
To decrease in relative importance.
Flushed
A rush of strong feeling
A flush of pride.
Pale
Whitish in complexion; pallid.
Flushed
A state of great vigor or development.
Pale
Of a low intensity of color; light.
Flushed
A bird or flock of birds that has been frightened from cover.
Pale
Having high lightness and low saturation.
Flushed
So as to be even, in one plane, or aligned with a margin.
Pale
Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint
"a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks" (Jimmy Breslin).
Flushed
Squarely or solidly
The ball hit him flush on the face.
Pale
Feeble; weak
A pale rendition of the aria.
Flushed
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
Pale
Light in color.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
Flushed
Simple past tense and past participle of flush
Pale
(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
Flushed
Having the pinkish flush of health
Pale
Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
Flushed
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;
Crimson with fury
Turned red from exertion
With puffy reddened eyes
Red-faced and violent
Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Pale
(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
Pale
(intransitive) To become insignificant.
Pale
(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Pale
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
Pale
(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
Pale
A wooden stake; a picket.
Pale
(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
Pale
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
Pale
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
Pale
(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
Pale
(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
Pale
(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
Pale
(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
Pale
(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
Pale
(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
Pale
A cheese scoop.
Pale
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
Speechless he stood and pale.
They are not of complexion red or pale.
Pale
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;It looks a little paler.
Pale
Paleness; pallor.
Pale
A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
Pale
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
Pale
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.
Pale
A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.
Pale
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
Pale
One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
Pale
A cheese scoop.
Pale
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
Pale
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm.
Pale
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Pale
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled inWith rocks unscalable and roaring waters.
Pale
A wooden strip forming part of a fence
Pale
Turn pale, as if in fear
Pale
Very light colored; highly diluted with white;
Pale seagreen
Pale blue eyes
Pale
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
The pale light of a half moon
A pale sun
The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
A pallid sky
The pale (or wan) stars
The wan light of dawn
Pale
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;
A pale rendition of the aria
Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender
A pallid performance
Pale
Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;
The pallid face of the invalid
Her wan face suddenly flushed
Pale
Not full or rich;
High, pale, pure and lovely song
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