Blush

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To become red in the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame; flush.
  • verb-intransitive. To become red or rosy.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel embarrassed or ashamed: blushed at his own audacity.
  • n. A reddening of the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame.
  • n. A red or rosy color: the blush of dawn.
  • n. A glance, look, or view: thought the painting genuine at first blush.
  • n. Blusher.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An act of blushing.
  • n. A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • n. A color between pink and cream.
  • v. To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • n. The collective noun for a group of boys.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • v. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • v. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shine, as the sun.
  • To glance; look.
  • To become red in the face; redden all over the face: especially from modesty, embarrassment, confusion, or shame.
  • To appear as if blushing; exhibit a red or roseate hue; bloom freshly or modestly.
  • To be ashamed: with at or for.
  • To make red.
  • To express, show, or make known by blushing, or by a change of color similar to a blush.
  • n. A gleam.
  • n. A glance; glimpse; look; view: obsolete except in the phrase at first blush.
  • n. Look; resemblance: as, she has a blush of her father.
  • n. The suffusion of the cheeks or the face with a red color through confusion, shame, diffidence, or the like.
  • n. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. become rosy or reddish
  • v. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • n. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
  • n. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    pale   
    Verb Form
    blushed    blushes    blushfulness    blushing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Form
    blushed    blushing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    redden    rouge    ruddy    flush   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cush    Rush    brush    crush    cush    dush    flush    frush    grush    gush   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flush    embarrassment    glow    tinge    bloom    tint    shiver    cheek    tear    shyness