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Blush
BLUSH, v.i.
1. To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing; as, blush at your vices;blush for your degraded country.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.
2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as the blushing rose.
He bears his blushing honors thick upon him.
Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry.
BLUSH, n. A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.
The rosy blush of love.
1. A red or reddish color.
2. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing;; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush.
blush appears in definitions for these words:
Bashfulness Blaze Blowze Blush Blushless Blushy Color Confuse Confused Consent Crimson Dapple Desert Disclose Distream Diversity Erubescence Erubescent Flush Foreshow Glow Indecency Job Modest Needy Now Puddock Redden Rosy Rud Save Shame Shamefaced Shamelessnes Shaming Stealth Suffuse Thereat Therefore Tread Unblushing Verecundity Vermil Waste Womanly
Bashfulness Blaze Blowze Blush Blushless Blushy Color Confuse Confused Consent Crimson Dapple Desert Disclose Distream Diversity Erubescence Erubescent Flush Foreshow Glow Indecency Job Modest Needy Now Puddock Redden Rosy Rud Save Shame Shamefaced Shamelessnes Shaming Stealth Suffuse Thereat Therefore Tread Unblushing Verecundity Vermil Waste Womanly
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