[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blush \blush\, v. t.
   1. to suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
      obs.
      1913 webster

            to blush and beautify the cheek again. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to express or make known by blushing.
      1913 webster

            i'll blush you thanks.                --shak.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blush \blush\ blu^sh v. i. imp.  p. p. blushed
   blu^sht; p. pr.  vb. n. blushing. oe. bluschen to
   shine, look, turn red, as. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a
   torch, =abl=ysian to blush, d. blozen, dan. blusse to
   blaze, blush.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            to the nuptial bower
            i led her blushing like the morn.     --milton.
      1913 webster

            in the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the
            young offender is ashamed to blush.   --buckminster.
      1913 webster

            he would stroke
            the head of modest and ingenuous worth,
            that blushed at its own praise.       --cowper.
      1913 webster

   2. to grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
      1913 webster

            the sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
            but stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other
      flowers.
      1913 webster

            full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --t.
                                                  gray.
      1913 webster
see also:
blushed blushing 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blush \blush\, n.
   1. a suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
      sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
      1913 webster

            the rosy blush of love.               --trumbull.
      1913 webster

   2. a red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
      1913 webster

            light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
                                                  --lyttleton.
      1913 webster

   at first blush, or at the first blush, at the first
      appearance or view. "at the first blush, we thought they
      had been ships come from france." --hakluyt.

   note: this phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc.,
         than of material things. "all purely identical
         propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,"
         etc. --locke.

   to put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put
      to shame.
      1913 webster
see also:
at first blush at the first blush to put to the blush 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blush
     n 1: a rosy color especially in the cheeks taken as a sign of
          good health syn: bloom, flush, rosiness
     2: sudden reddening of the face as from embarrassment or guilt
        or shame or modesty syn: flush
     v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "the girl blushed
          when a young man whistled as she walked by" syn: crimson,
           flush, redden
     2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold
        winter air"
see also:
bloom flush rosiness crimson redden 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 moby thesaurus words for "blush":
   be guilty, blanch, bloom, blossom, blushing, change color, color,
   color up, coloring, crimson, crimsoning, darken, fieriness, flame,
   flush, flushing, glow, grow red, healthy glow, hectic,
   hectic flush, incandescence, look black, look guilty, mantle,
   mantling, pale, pink, pudency, pudicity, redden, reddening,
   redness, rose, rosiness, rouge, rubefacient, rubescence,
   rufescence, squirm with self-consciousness, stammer, suffusion,
   turn color, turn pale, turn red, warm color, warmth,
   warmth of color, whiten, whiteness

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