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noun

Blush n.

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

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." 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.

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

verb

Blush v. t.

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. (Obs.) "To blush and beautify the cheek again."

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

Blush v. i. (past & past part. blushed; pres. part. blushing)

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."

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."

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

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Etymology of 'Blush'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blush" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a blush upon his face (for the day was just beginning to dawn, so that I could see him): Unless this differs in some way from the former instances, I suppose that he will ...

— Protagoras • Plato

... He was, as it were, in the East. And the immanence of a third person, the Italian, accepting naturally and completely the code of the little world, only added to the charm. The Italian was like a slave, from whom it is necessary to hide nothing and never to blush. ...

— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett

... but not in great numbers, in the dry districts in the north of Ceylon, where it frequents the trees, in slow pursuit of its insect prey. Whilst the faculty of this creature to blush all the colours of the rainbow has attracted the wonder of all ages, sufficient attention has hardly been given to the imperfect sympathy which subsists between the two lobes of the brain, and the two sets of nerves which permeate the opposite sides of its frame. ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... The blush on her cheek burnt deeper as she tossed her head proudly back, and said straight out, without any show of fence ...

— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie

... Landrecourt we found the Eager Soul, a badly scared young person—but tremendously plucky! And mad—say, that girl was doing a strafing job that would have made the kaiser blush! And the fine part of it was, that its expression was entirely in repression. There was no laugh in her face, no joy in her heart, and we scarcely knew the sombre, effective, business-like young person who greeted us. And then across the court we saw ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

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