blush

IPA: bɫˈʌʃ

An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, modesty, etc.
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
A color between pink and cream.
(chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
The collective noun for a group of boys.

(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
(intransitive) To become red.
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
(copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
(intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
(aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.

Examples of "blush" in Sentences

We'll use "blush" - pronounced 'bloosh' the way Scots would say it.
They didn't offer me a new Lexus for my troubles, however~although they did email back in blush mode.
It's also embarassing and somewhat telling to admit that the only way to get me to blush is to compliment my writing.
If ARTINFO misses anything, it is because we got stuck in a "blush" - colored bridesmaid's dress and fell over, briefly knocking ourselves out on the edge of the bathtub.
Nars Orgasm blush is certainly an atypical name, although I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it falls under ‘’unexpected descriptive’’ or simply ‘’ambiguous.’’
A few of the first users have already destroyed the myth and showed off screen shots of the new Administration Panels and talked about the new features, so the blush is off the rose of wordpress. com.
A blush is the foolishest thing that can be, and betrays one more than a red nose does a drunkard; and yet I would not so wholly have lost them as some women that I know has, as much injury as they do me.
Pah! the reminiscences of the horrid black-hole of a place in which we soldiers were confined; of the wretched creatures with whom I was now forced to keep company; of the ploughmen, poachers, pickpockets, who had taken refuge from poverty, or the law (as, in truth, I had done myself), is enough to make me ashamed even now, and it calls the blush into my old cheeks to think I was ever forced to keep such company.