blush

[blush]

When you blush, you turn red because you are embarrassed. And, oddly enough, women wear the make up variety of blush to add color to their cheeks not to appear embarrassed but to appear attractive.

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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.

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

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

Verb
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

Verb
become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

v. i.
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

v. t.
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

v. t.
To express or make known by blushing.

n.
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

n.
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Blush

Blush v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blushed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, 'beblsian 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.

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.

He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise.

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.

3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Blush

Blush, v. t. 1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.]

To blush and beautify the cheek again.

2. To express or make known by blushing.

I'll blush you thanks.

Blush

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.

2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.

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. 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.

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 suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

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Usage Examples

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

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Other Usage Examples

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.