| VERB | body | blush, crimson, flush, redden | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
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| change | blush | become rosy or reddish | |
| NOUN | state | blush, bloom, flush, rosiness | a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health |
| act | blush, flush | sudden reddening / reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) |
| Sounds | blah'sh | |
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| Rhymes | brush ... underbrush: 17 rhymes with ahsh... | |
| Meaning | A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health. | |
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| Synonyms | bloom, flush, rosiness | |
| Broader | good health, healthiness | The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease |
| Spanish | lozanía | |
| Catalan | rubor | |
| Meaning | sudden reddening / reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty). | |
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| Synonym | flush | |
| Broader | reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction | An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
| Verbs | blush | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
| Meaning | Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" | |
| Synonyms | crimson, flush, redden | |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color | change color, often in an undesired manner |
| Spanish | abochornar, arrebolar, enrojecer, rosarse, ruborizarse, sonrojarse, sonrojar, sonrosarse | |
| Catalan | encarnar, enrogir-se, enrojolar-se, envermellir-se, envermellonar, ruboritzar-se | |
| Nouns | blush | sudden reddening / reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) |
| blusher | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | |
| blusher | yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | |
| Meaning | Become rosy or reddish. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air" | |
| Broader | redden | Turn red or redder |
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