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hot flush

British

noun

a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause

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It was in 2019 when Debbie Dickinson experienced her first hot flush.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2023

She also had the classic symptom associated with menopause - the hot flush.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2021

Since then she has suffered “terrible stomach troubles” including “cramps, doubling over, vomiting, diarrhoea, boiling hot flush, sweating, agony”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

If you’re a woman, you wake up every morning thinking, is this a hot flush?

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2018

I fought down a hot flush of embarrassment as they looked me up and down.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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