blush
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen (“to blush”). Compare also Old English blysian (“to burn; blaze”), Dutch blozen (“to blush”), Danish blusse (“to blush”), Old Norse blys (“torch”), Danish blus (“blaze”).
Inflected forms:
form: blushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The love scene made him blush to the roots of his hair / to the tips of his ears.
He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him.
[…] they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
text-To the Nuptial Bowre
I led her blushing like the Morn:
I wonder whether they [women] ever blush at those things by themselves, at which they have so charming a knack of blushing in company.—If not; and if blushing be a sign of grace or modesty, have not the sex as great a command over their blushes, as they are said to have over their tears?
Mrs. Montgomery brushed away her tears, and blushed at having shed them.
But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
gloss: To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: While Cato lives, Caesar will blush to see
Mankind enslaved, and be ashamed of Empire.
He never blushed to rob a slave mother of her children, no matter how young or small.
[…] in this enlightened age, we have much to blush for in the acts of our ancestors.
gloss: To become red or pink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
But stayed, and made the western welkin blush,
gloss: To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [the ghost] with the heart there cools and ne’er returneth
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
gloss: To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.
I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink.
A few lost leaves blushed crimson with their shame,
And drowned themselves despairing in the brook,
[…] she […] blushed a warm and genuine-looking pink.
gloss: To express or make known by blushing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.
I’ll blush you thanks.
The windows smiled, the door coaxed and beckoned, the creeper blushed confederacy.
“I can see you yawning and stretching, Felix—not very polite.” Felix sprang to attention, metaphorically speaking, and blushed his apologies.
gloss: To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.
Full many a Flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its Sweetness on the desart Air.
[…] lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow;
Natalie^’s pink bonnet blushed in the early sunshine […]
gloss: To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Blushing is caused by doping under high relative humidity conditions.
Why is retarder used in dope when the dope is being sprayed in humid conditions? The retarder slows the drying of the dope and keeps it from blushing.
Synonyms: flush
pinken
redden
Related words: erythrophobia
Derived words: ablush
antiblush
antiblushing
blusher
blushet
blushing bride
blushing bunny
blushingly
blushworthy
make the angels blush
outblush
unblush
unblushing
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bloos
lang: Arabic
word: اِحْمَرَّ
roman: iḥmarra
lang: Armenian
word: շիկնել
roman: šiknel
lang: Belarusian
word: чырване́ць
roman: čyrvanjécʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: зачервя́вам се
roman: začervjávam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: зачервя́ се
roman: začervjá se
lang: Bulgarian
word: изчервя́вам се
roman: izčervjávam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: изчервя́ се
roman: izčervjá se
lang: Bulgarian
word: поруменя́вам
roman: porumenjávam
lang: Catalan
word: posar-se vermell
lang: Catalan
word: tornar-se vermell
lang: Catalan
word: enrojolar-se
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 臉紅 /脸红
roman: liǎnhóng
lang: Czech
word: červenat se
lang: Czech
word: začervenat se
lang: Danish
word: rødme
lang: Dutch
word: blozen
lang: Esperanto
word: roziĝi
lang: Esperanto
word: ruĝiĝi
lang: Finnish
word: punastua
lang: French
word: rougir
lang: French
word: s'empourprer
lang: French
word: cramoisir
lang: French
word: piquer un fard
lang: Georgian
word: წითლდება
roman: c̣itldeba
lang: Georgian
word: გაწითლდება
roman: gac̣itldeba
lang: Georgian
word: აჭარხლდება
roman: ač̣arxldeba
lang: Georgian
word: აილეწება
roman: ailec̣eba
lang: German
word: erröten
lang: German
word: rot werden
lang: German
word: sich schämen
lang: Greek
word: κοκκινίζω
roman: kokkinízo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐρυθριάω
roman: eruthriáō
lang: Greenlandic
word: aappillerpoq
lang: Haitian Creole
word: rouji
lang: Hebrew
word: הִסְמִיק
roman: hismík
lang: Hungarian
word: elpirul
lang: Icelandic
word: roðna
lang: Ingrian
word: punastua
lang: Irish
word: dearg
lang: Italian
word: arrossire
lang: Japanese
word: 赤面する
roman: sekimen suru
lang: Ket
word: дасюлейкся
lang: Korean
word: 붉히다
roman: bulkida
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кызар
roman: kızar
lang: Latin
word: rubeō
lang: Latin
word: subrubeō
lang: Latin
word: rubescō
lang: Latvian
word: piesarkt
lang: Lithuanian
word: nurausti
lang: Māori
word: pāhanahana
lang: Māori
word: whakawhero
lang: Māori
word: pūwhero
lang: Māori
word: mumura
lang: Mirandese
word: quelorar
lang: Norwegian
word: rødme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: raudna
lang: Persian
word: سرخ شدن
roman: sorx šodan
lang: Polish
word: czerwienieć
lang: Polish
word: poczerwienieć
lang: Polish
word: sczerwienieć
lang: Polish
word: rumienić się
lang: Polish
word: zarumienić się
lang: Polish
word: zalać się rumieńcem
lang: Portuguese
word: corar
lang: Portuguese
word: ruborizar
lang: Portuguese
word: enrubescer
lang: Romanian
word: împurpura
lang: Romanian
word: înroși
lang: Romanian
word: îmbujora
lang: Romanian
word: roși
lang: Romanian
word: a se înroși
lang: Russian
word: красне́ть
roman: krasnétʹ
lang: Russian
word: покрасне́ть
roman: pokrasnétʹ
lang: Russian
word: рдеть
roman: rdetʹ
lang: Russian
word: зарде́ться
roman: zardétʹsja
lang: Sanskrit
word: जिह्रेति
roman: jihreti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pocrveniti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zacrveniti
lang: Slovak
word: červenať sa
lang: Slovak
word: začervenať sa
lang: Spanish
word: ruborizarse
lang: Spanish
word: enrojecerse
lang: Spanish
word: sonrojarse
lang: Spanish
word: abochornarse
lang: Spanish
word: arrebolarse
lang: Swedish
word: rodna
lang: Tagalog
word: himulahin
lang: Turkish
word: kızarmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: червоні́ти
roman: červoníty
lang: Ukrainian
word: почервоні́ти
roman: počervoníty
lang: Ukrainian
word: шарі́ти
roman: šaríty
lang: Ukrainian
word: зашарі́ти
roman: zašaríty
lang: Ukrainian
word: шарі́тися
roman: šarítysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: зашарі́тися
roman: zašarítysja
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỏ mặt