BLUSH

blush, flush

(noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

bloom, blush, flush, rosiness

(noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

blush, crimson, flush, redden

(verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; “The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by”

blush

(verb) become rosy or reddish; “her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

blush (countable and uncountable, plural blushes)

An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.

A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.

(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.

(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.

Synonyms: blusher, rouge

A color between pink and cream.

(chiefly, US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.

Synonyms: blush wine, rosé

Verb

blush (third-person singular simple present blushes, present participle blushing, simple past and past participle blushed)

(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

Synonym: go red

(intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).

(intransitive) To become red.

(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.

(transitive) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).

(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.

(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.

(intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.

Synonyms

• flush

• pinken

• redden

Etymology 2

Noun

blush (plural blushes)

The collective noun for a group of boys.

Usage notes

This is probably a fanciful expression and has never been in common use.

Anagrams

• buhls, shlub

Source: Wiktionary

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Blush v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.] Etym: [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, abl to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.]

1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray.

Blush, v. t.

1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] To blush and beautify the cheek again. Shak.

2. To express or make known by blushing. I'll blush you thanks. Shak.

Blush, n.

1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. The rosy blush of love. Trumbull.

2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. Lyttleton. At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. "All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear." etc. Locke.

– To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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