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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


VERB (2)

1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
- Example: "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
[syn: blush, crimson, flush, redden]

2. become rosy or reddish;
- Example: "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blush \Blush\, v. t. 1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To express or make known by blushing. [1913 Webster] I'll blush you thanks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. [1913 Webster] The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. [1913 Webster] Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blush \Blush\, n. 1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. [1913 Webster] The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster] 2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. [1913 Webster] Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. --Lyttleton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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"