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Blushing   /blˈəʃɪŋ/   Listen
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."



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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"Blushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... you, miss. I must get back to Wendover to-night. Fact is, I'm on the wing again," said the young man, stammering and blushing. "Business of importance calls me to—to Charlottesville, miss. So if you should have a letter or a message to send to—to Mrs. Grey I should be happy to ...
— Victor's Triumph - Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... sailing along like the wings of night; and then is the hour for remembering that this is Mexico, and in spite of all the evils that have fallen over it, the memory of the romantic past hovers there still. But the dark clouds sail on, and envelop the crimson tints yet lingering and blushing on the lofty mountains, and like monstrous night-birds brood there in silent watch; and gradually the whole landscape—mountains and sky, convent and olive-trees, look gray and sad, and seem to melt away in the ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

... blushing cloud That beautifies Aurora's face, Or like the silver crimson shroud That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace. Heigh ho, fair Rosaline! Her lips are like two budded roses Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh, Within whose bounds she balm encloses Apt to entice a deity: Heigh ho, would ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... will burst the fetters of ignorance in which they are bound, and rescue their fair land from the paltry nothingness of position which it occupies among the nations of Europe, despite many generous and noble hearts which even now, in her degradation, are to be found blushing over present realities and striving to ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... didn't mean that!' she said, blushing; 'but sometimes I could cry over the poor plants which she neglects. I daresay you will think me very ridiculous, but I do cry sometimes, and sometimes I cannot resist taking them out on the sly, and giving ...
— Vain Fortune • George Moore


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