Sekirov Dictionary

blush

/ˈblʌʃ/

verb 9
noun 7
forms 6
phrases 1

verb9

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To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
- The love scene made him blush to the roots of his hair / to the tips of his ears.
- He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him.
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To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
- When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.
- I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink.
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To become red or pink.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush, — 1596
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To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
- [the ghost] with the heart there cools and ne’er returneth To blush and beautify the cheek again. — 1591
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To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
- The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.
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(figurative) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
- While Cato lives, Caesar will blush to see Mankind enslaved, and be ashamed of Empire. — 1712
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To express or make known by blushing.
- Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.
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Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
- Blushing is caused by doping under high relative humidity conditions. — 1966
(no longer used) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.

noun7

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An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
- Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege, Whom thou obeyed’st thirty and six years, And not bewray thy treason with a blush? — 1591
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A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
- And now the rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east, and soon the rising sun, emerging from amidst golden and purple clouds, shed his blithesome rays on the tin weathercocks of Communipaw. — 1809
A cosmetic, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks and lips.
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A color between pink and cream.
- Makeup colors like ivory and blush dominate spring collections and have even infiltrated Burberry's shoes. — 2006
(US) Ellipsis of blush wine.
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(figurative) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
- The independence ceremony could not keep the blush of April's revolution, when carnations had seemed to sprout from every buttonhole, from fading. — 1974
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The collective noun for a group of boys.
- a blush of boys

forms

blushed · blusht · blushing · blushes · blusheth · blushest

Phrases with blush

at first blush
Upon first impression or consideration; seemingly, apparently, ostensibly.

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