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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."

noun

Blushing n. The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

adjective

Blushing adj. Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. "The dappled pink and blushing rose."

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Etymology of 'Blushing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blushing" Quotes from Famous Books

... skipped up the bank, and disappeared into the thicket, stopping once for a single blushing bob - blushing, because she had in the interval once more forgotten and remembered the ...

— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson

... a poor man," answered Zachur, blushing, "but I learned two things when only a boy: to use a sword, and to speak the truth. Yes, I have lost many a thing; and when I was boasting just now that I had everything in my sack, I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited capacity are, in the use of the two ...

— Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... young Highlander; 'but you will share what is left of my subsidy; it will save you an anxious thought tonight, and will be all one tomorrow, for we shall all be provided for, one way or other, before the sun sets.' Waverley, blushing deeply, but with great earnestness, pressed the ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... look calmly amused; then she tried to look insulted, and to freeze me into sanity. She ended, however, by looking a good bit confused, and by blushing scarlet. I had won that far. I kept her hand held tight in mine; I could feel it squirm to get ...

— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower

... priest, where he would learn nothing but masses and the services of the Church. Messer Francesco could see that it pleased Castruccio greatly to hear horses and arms spoken of, even though he stood silent, blushing modestly; but being encouraged by Messer Francesco to speak, he answered that, if his master were agreeable, nothing would please him more than to give up his priestly studies and take up those of a soldier. This reply delighted Messer ...

— The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli

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