blush
Other forms: blushed; blushing; blushes
When you blush, you turn red because you are embarrassed. And, oddly enough, women wear the make-up variety of blush to add color to their cheeks — not to appear embarrassed but to appear attractive.
Women use a type of makeup called blush to add redness to their cheeks. That can help you remember the other meanings of this word, which all relate to redness or rosiness. When you have a blush — or are blushing — your face gets red. People blush when they’re embarrassed. Having a crush can cause blushing; so can getting caught stealing something. Blushing is caused by blood rushing to the head: thus, the color red.
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become rosy or reddish“her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air”type of:reddenturn red or redder
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turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
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a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
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sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)synonyms: flushtype of:inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflexan automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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Vocabulary lists containing blush
As languages change, so do pronunciations. Here are some words that have gone through relatively recent shifts in pronunciation or whose spelling is a mystery unless one knows a bit about the history of how they were pronounced. There are also a few words where the only thing that has changed is the stress of the syllables. In most cases, rhyming words or phrases, which are just useful for their sound and are not intended to mean anything, are given to provide a sense of how these different pronunciations sounded.
