😊 To turn red 😊 A red face 💄 A cheek makeup

to blush

86 1.3

To become red in the face from embarrassment or cold

verb
/blʌʃ/

: sonrojarse

'I felt myself blushing 'and opened my library book and pretended to read.
make someone blush

I rewrite to be read, though I blush acknowledging it.

Autoplay Next

Examples

Seeing his crush wave at him made him blush deeply.
"What a hateful thing to say!" the clerk said, blushing and looking away.

Fiction book (1991)
The honest ones blush and look away.

Night Must Fall (1937)
You're making me blush before we started.
The next one lacked music; the third made me blush with embarrassment.

Fiction book (1990)
"Hi there!" He blushed and hoped she thought it was the heat of the barbecue.

Fiction book (1991)
From where I sat, I could see that she was blushing red as a beetroot.

Fiction book (1991)
You're making me blush.

Clueless (1995)
She could barely look me in the eyes, Trevor, and I swear she was blushing.

Candyman (1992)
She began to blush when he complimented her outfit.

Synonyms

to flush

vsto blush

22 3.4

To become red because of heat or strong feeling

is often from emotion or cold rather than mainly heat

to turn red

vsto blush

17 1.2

Become red in the face because you feel embarrassed, shy, or angry

is about emotion or cold rather than strong anger or irritation

to redden

vsto blush

8 3.7

To change to red, for example from heat or embarrassment

is limited to face color change often tied to emotion, embarrassment, or cold

to crimson

vsto blush

Literature

1 9.0

To become red in the face from embarrassment or shame

is a neutral everyday word rather than literary or poetic

to turn a number of shades of red

vsto blush

5.7

To become red in the face when you feel embarrassed

is a general face color change that does not stress shade variation

Antonyms

to keep one's cool

Informal

1 3.4

Stay calm and control your feelings when things are hard

Idioms

first blush

Informal

9 6.6

An early opinion before careful thought

at first blush

7 6.8

When you first look at something, it seems right before you check details

Compounds

baked blush

1 5.2

A long-lasting powder for the cheeks made by baking colored liquid

blush wine

1 4.4

A light pink wine made from red grapes

How Red

to flush

22 3.4

to turn red

17 1.2

to redden

8 3.7

to blush

86 1.3

Surface Forms

blush infinitive

blushed past

blushed past participle

blushing present participle

blushes third person singular

Etymology

Blush comes from the old English verb blyscan, which meant 'to become red'. So to blush is to turn your face 'pink' or red from strong feelings or from the cold.