💄 A cheek makeup 💄 To add makeup 🛠️ To turn reddish

to rouge

1 6.5

To put red or pink makeup on the cheeks

verb
/ruːʒ/

: aplicar colorete

She's touched up her makeup, rouged her cheeks, and put on a dark green wool jacket.
rouged cheeks
rouged lips
rouged face

Examples

On cold winter days, she likes to rouge her cheeks for a warm, rosy glow.
Her eyelids were darkened, her cheeks rouged.

Fiction book (1996)
But good. "We'll rouge you before the big event," Mark told Yvonne.

Fiction book (1990)
Mama's got her cheeks rouged.

Fiction book (1990)
Her cheeks and lips would be darkly rouged.

Fiction book (1996)
They amuse themselves, painting our fingernails and rouging our cheeks.

Fiction book (1996)
"Annabelle's artfully rouged cheeks deepened a shade.

Fiction book (1990)
Chang also records, "her makeup was understated, except for the glossily rouged arcs of her lips" (Chang 3).

Academic text (2009)
Before the photoshoot, the artist decided to rouge her cheeks to enhance her features.
Every morning, she carefully rouges her cheeks to add a touch of color to her face.

Antonyms

to take off

∞ 1.5

To remove clothes or something from your body

Compounds

Khmer Rouge

NSFW

28 9.8

A communist group that ruled Cambodia and killed millions between 1975 and 1979

lip rouge

Archaic

1 5.5

A colored makeup you put on your lips

Baton Rouge Bridge

3.7

A bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

rouge et noir

9.9

A card game with two rows where players bet on the color or row closer to a number

rouge plant

9.3

A bushy houseplant with pale pink flowers and clusters of bright red berries

How Heavy

to cake

24 7.9

to rouge

1 6.5

to apply

263 1.3

to dab

11 2.8

Surface Forms

rouge infinitive

rouged past

rouged past participle

rouging present participle

rouges third person singular

Etymology

Rouge as a verb also comes from the French rouge ('red'), so to rouge your cheeks simply means to make them red by putting on that makeup.