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Blushing   /blˈəʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Blush  v. t.  
1.
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. (Obs.) "To blush and beautify the cheek again."
2.
To express or make known by blushing. "I'll blush you thanks."


Blush  v. i.  (past & past part. blushed; pres. part. blushing)  
1.
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 the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn." "In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush." "He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise."
2.
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. "The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush."
3.
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen."


noun
Blushing  n.  The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.


adjective
Blushing  adj.  Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. "The dappled pink and blushing rose."





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"Blushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... soul to hate To see him thus, all gentleness to woo? In tenderest tone he tells his deeds of war, With blandest feeling shows the ghastly scar He joyed to take, that he might win his bride, His own, his blushing one—the dark-eyed ...
— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas
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... let me put an end unto my theme: There was an end of Ismail—hapless town! Far flash'd her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream Rose still; but fainter were the thunders grown: Of forty thousand who had mann'd the wall, Some hundreds breathed—the ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
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... her eyes—ah, the heroic little figure! can't you see her? There was a great burst of acclamations, and she sat down blushing, for it was not in her delicate nature ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
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... to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good, easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little, wanton ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
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... irresistibly drawn to him again, and the supplication, as she lifted her blushing face, and the yielding, ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
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