Blush

blush
    n 1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of
         good health [syn: {bloom}, {blush}, {flush}, {rosiness}]
    2: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt
       or shame or modesty) [syn: {blush}, {flush}]
    v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl
         blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn:
         {blush}, {crimson}, {flush}, {redden}]
    2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold
       winter air"
    

Blush \Blush\, v. t.
   1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
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            To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.
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   2. To express or make known by blushing.
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            I'll blush you thanks.                --Shak.
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Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed}
   (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to
   shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a
   torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to
   blaze, blush.]
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   1. 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.
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            To the nuptial bower
            I led her blushing like the morn.     --Milton.
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            In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the
            young offender is ashamed to blush.   --Buckminster.
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            He would stroke
            The head of modest and ingenuous worth,
            That blushed at its own praise.       --Cowper.
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   2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
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            The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
            But stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other
      flowers.
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            Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T.
                                                  Gray.
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Blush \Blush\, n.
   1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
      sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
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            The rosy blush of love.               --Trumbull.
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   2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
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            Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
                                                  --Lyttleton.
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   {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." --Hakluyt.

   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. --Locke.

   {To put to the blush}, to cause to blush with shame; to put
      to shame.
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50 Moby Thesaurus words for "blush":
      be guilty, blanch, bloom, blossom, blushing, change color, color,
      color up, coloring, crimson, crimsoning, darken, fieriness, flame,
      flush, flushing, glow, grow red, healthy glow, hectic,
      hectic flush, incandescence, look black, look guilty, mantle,
      mantling, pale, pink, pudency, pudicity, redden, reddening,
      redness, rose, rosiness, rouge, rubefacient, rubescence,
      rufescence, squirm with self-consciousness, stammer, suffusion,
      turn color, turn pale, turn red, warm color, warmth,
      warmth of color, whiten, whiteness