Meaning

9 senses
  1. (intransitive)To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

    The love scene made him blush to the roots of his hair / to the tips of his ears.

    He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him.

    erröten, rot werden, sich schämen

    красне́тьkrasnétʹ, покрасне́тьpokrasnétʹ, рдетьrdetʹ

    червоні́тиčervoníty, почервоні́тиpočervoníty, шарі́тиšaríty

    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).

  3. (intransitive)To become red or pink.

    become rosy or reddish

  4. (transitive)To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.

  5. (copulative)To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).

    When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.

    I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink.

  6. (transitive)To express or make known by blushing.

    Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.

  7. (intransitive)To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.

    The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.

  8. (intransitive)Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.

  9. (intransitive, obsolete)To glance with the eye, cast a glance.

Examples

212 sentences
  1. Tom looked at Mary and blushed.

    Том подивився на Мері та почервонів. — deniko

    ruТом посмотрел на Мэри и покраснел. — marafon

  2. Tom blushed when Mary kissed him.

    Том почервонів, коли Мері його поцілувала. — deniko

    ruТом покраснел, когда Мэри его поцеловала. — marafon

  3. Tom blushed a little.

    Том трохи почервонів. — deniko

    ruТом слегка покраснел. — marafon

  4. Are you blushing?

    Ти червонієш? — shanghainese

    ruТы краснеешь? — odexed

    deErrötest du? — Yorwba

  5. Tom is blushing.

    Том червоніє. — deniko

    ruТом краснеет. — marafon

    deTom wird rot. — brauchinet

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to redden or pinken in the face from shame, shyness, excitement, or embarrassment:
Русский
By meaning 1
to redden or pinken in the face from shame, shyness, excitement, or embarrassment:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to redden or pinken in the face from shame, shyness, excitement, or embarrassment:

Origin

From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to

From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.

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Forms

blushes, blushing, blushed, blushed
Base formblush · to blush
3rd person singularblushes
Present participleblushing
Past simpleblushed
Past participleblushed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyblush
he, she, itblushes

Past simpleLesson

all personsblushed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave blushed
he, she, ithas blushed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill blush

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

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