Definition of Blush

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Definition of Blush

Blush

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 grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

To express or make known by blushing.

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

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Blush Quotations

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

A letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir Nabokov

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
George Herbert

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
Jerry Falwell

Blush Translations

blush in Dutch is blozen, kleuren, rood worden
blush in French is rougir
blush in Latin is rubor
blush in Swedish is rodna

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