Definitions for blush
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bloom, blush, flush, rosinessnoun

   a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

2. blush, flushverb

   sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

3. blush, crimson, flush, reddenverb

   turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

   "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

4. blushverb

   become rosy or reddish

   "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Blushnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. The colour in the cheeks, raised by shame or confusion.

   The virgin’s wish, without her fears, impart,
   Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart. Alexander Pope.

   2. A red or purple colour.

   But here the roses blush so rare,
   Here the mornings smile so fair,
   As if neither cloud, nor wind,
   But would be courteous, would be kind. Richard Crashaw.

   3. Sudden appearance; a signification that seems barbarous, yet used by good writers.

   All purely identical propositions, obviously and at first blush, appear to contain no certain instruction in them. John Locke.

2. To BLUSHverb

   Etymology: blosen, Dutch.

   1. To betray shame or confusion, by a red colour in the cheek.

   I have mark’d
   A thousand blushing apparitions
   To start into her face; a thousand innocent shames,
   In angel whiteness, bear away these blushes. William Shakespeare, Much ado about Nothing.

   Pale and bloodless,
   Being all descended to the lab’ring heart,
   Which with the heart there cools, and ne’er returneth
   To blush and beautify the cheek again. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   I will go wash:
   And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
   Whether I blush, or no. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   All these things are graceful in a friend’s mouth, which are blushing in a man’s own. Francis Bacon, Essay 28.

   Shame causeth blushing; blushing is the resort of the blood to the face; although blushing will be seen in the whole breast, yet that is but in passage to the face. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

   Blush then, but blush for your destructive silence,
   That tears your soul. Edmund Smith, Phædr. and Hippolitus.

   2. To carry a red colour, or any soft and bright colour.

   To day he puts forth
   The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms,
   And bears his blushing honours thick upon him. Sh. H. VI.

   Along those blushing borders, bright with dew. James Thomson.

   3. It has at before the cause of shame.

   He whin’d, and roar’d away your victory,
   That pages blush’d at him; and men of heart
   Look’d wond’ring at each other. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   You have not yet lost all your natural modesty, but blush at your vices. Edmund Calamy, Sermons.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blush

   Blush is a reddening of the face typically caused by embarrassment, shame, or modesty. It can also refer to a type of cosmetic applied to the cheeks to give them a rosy or slightly reddened hue.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Blushverb

   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

2. Blushverb

   to grow red; to have a red or rosy color

3. Blushverb

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

4. Blushverb

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

5. Blushverb

   to express or make known by blushing

6. Blushnoun

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

7. Blushnoun

   a red or reddish color; a rosy tint

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Blush

   blush, n. a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, &c.: any reddish colour: sudden appearance.—v.i. to show shame or confusion by growing red in the face: to grow red.—n. Blush′et (Ben Jonson), a young, modest girl.—adj. Blush′ful, full of blushes: modest—n. Blush′ing, the act of turning red: the appearance of colour upon the cheek.—p.adj. showing blushes: modest.—adv. Blush′ingly.—At the first blush, at the first glance.—To put to the blush, to cause to blush. [Prob. Scand.; cog. with A.S. blysa, a blaze. See Blaze, Blowze.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. BLUSH

   A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium, in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial, muscular filaments of the facial capillaries, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they become suffused with a radiance emanating from an intimidated praecordia.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BLUSH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Blush is ranked #71265 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Blush surname appeared 274 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Blush.
   
   95.2% or 261 total occurrences were White.
   2.5% or 7 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Good Health
   • Redden

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How to pronounce blush?

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   US English

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   British

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   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

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   Australian

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   Australian

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   Indian

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   US English

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How to say blush in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blush in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blush in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of blush in a Sentence

1. Attorney General WilliamBarr:

   Its really something the National Enquirer would blush if they printed so we know that it was used four times by the United States government.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

3. Bekir Bozdag:

   The justice ministry has allowed 1,845 cases on charges of insulting Erdogan to go ahead, i am unable to read the shameful insults made against our president. I start to blush.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   He is to the right of Donald Trump, he would make, honestly, Donald Trump blush.

5. Jeremy Tillman:

   At first blush, individuals may find it reassuring that their data is being collected and processed by faceless corporations rather than their neighbor next door, however, there are two caveats to this logic, he added. First, while your neighbor may not be personally collecting your data, he may very well be the data analyst working at the company that does. In other words, there are distinct individuals within each company whose entire job is to analyze, evaluate, and interact with user data. Ten or more trackers that collect personal data were found on 21.3 percent of the sites covered by the study. CUNNING MALWARE SPREADS, GOES AFTER YOUR BANK ACCOUNT Google Analytics and Facebook Connect are some of the most prominent trackers, according to Ghostery. Google Analytics is in the top ten of the most widely used trackers based on the various services the Internet giant uses, including Google Analytics and Google Analytics Adsense. Facebook Connect is next with three. Google Analytics was found on almost half of all loaded pages at 46.4 percent, while Facebook Connect was on more than a fifth, coming in at 21.9 percent. Other companies that showed include comScore and Twitter. And Google Analytics’s not easy keeping tabs on these trackers since many are n’t installed by the website owner, according to Jeremy Tillman.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blush
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=blush
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blush
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=blush
6. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=blush
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=blush