Blush

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  • intransitive verb. To become red in the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame; flush.
  • intransitive verb. To become red or rosy.
  • intransitive verb. To feel embarrassed or ashamed.
  • noun. A reddening of the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame.
  • noun. A red or rosy color.
  • noun. A glance, look, or view.
  • noun. Makeup used on the face and especially on the cheekbones to give a usually 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.
  • noun. A gleam.
  • noun. A glance; glimpse; look; view: obsolete except in the phrase at first blush.
  • noun. Look; resemblance: as, she has a blush of her father.
  • noun. The suffusion of the cheeks or the face with a red color through confusion, shame, diffidence, or the like.
  • noun. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • transitive verb. To express or make known by blushing.
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • intransitive verb. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • noun. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  • noun. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
  • noun. at the first appearance or view.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The collective noun for a group of boys.
  • noun. An act of blushing.
  • noun. A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • noun. A color between pink and cream.
  • verb. To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become rosy or reddish
  • verb. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • noun. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
  • noun. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  • Word Usage
    "It's also embarassing and somewhat telling to admit that the only way to get me to blush is to compliment my writing."
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