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Blush   /bləʃ/   Listen
noun
Blush  n.  
1.
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. "The rosy blush of love."
2.
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.  
1.
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. (Obs.) "To blush and beautify the cheek again."
2.
To express or make known by blushing. "I'll blush you thanks."


Blush  v. i.  (past & past part. blushed; pres. part. blushing)  
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. "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."
2.
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."
3.
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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"Blush" Quotes from Famous Books



... book in the lime-walk, or she would go through the gate into the field. She would read all day long, eagerly poring over the book, and only through her looking fatigued, dizzy, and pale sometimes, was it possible to guess how much her reading exhausted her. When she saw me come she would blush a little and leave her book, and, looking into my face with her big eyes, she would tell me of things that had happened, how the chimney in the servants' room had caught fire, or how the labourer had caught a large fish in the pond. On week-days she usually wore a bright-coloured blouse ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush ...
— Language of Flowers • Kate Greenaway
... our side, and must remain so until the enemy had landed and come to hand-grips with us; and it was imperative that, in order to ensure our own success, as many as possible of our foes should be put hors de combat before the fight became a hand-to-hand melee. It certainly seemed, at the first blush, to be rather cowardly to pelt the poor beggars with grape while they were unable to strike a blow in return; but the feeling was, after all, one of very weak, false sentimentality. Every man of them was an outlaw and, even if not yet an ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... true, papa, I saw him do it," she replied, with a slight blush, and sending an uneasy glance around ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... educational facilities made reading and writing come, if not by nature, at least with general compulsion, the making of books has increased to the present output—which would have made the ancient philosopher blush for his ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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