Blush
- n. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
- v. i. 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.
- v. i. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
- v. i. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
- v. t. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
- v. t. To express or make known by blushing.
- n. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.