Word Meanings - ABLUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blushing; ruddy.

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• BLUSH
  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. Milton. In the presence of the shameless
• BLUSHLESS
  Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
• BLUSHINGLY
  In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
• RUDDY
  1. Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. Milton. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Lam. iv. 7. 2. Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. Dryden. Ruddy
• BLUSHET
  A modest girl. B. Jonson.
• BLUSHER
  One that blushes.
• BLUSHING
  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. Prior.
• BLUSHY
  Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. "A blushy color." Harvey.
• BLUSHFUL
  Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.
• UNBLUSHING
  Not blushing; shameless. -- Un*blush"ing*ly, adv.
• ABLUSH
  Blushing; ruddy.
• OUTBLUSH
  To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color. T. Shipman.