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blush

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1. blush - Noun

2. blush - Verb

Meaning

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.

To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

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

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

To express or make known by blushing.

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

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A letter does not blush. Cicero

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. Charles Dickens

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient. Carlo Goldoni

Ashamed of what she sees in the daytime the sun sets with a blush. Armenian Proverb

Women rouge that they may not blush. Italian Proverb

Paper does not blush. Italian Proverb

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