blush

1. 1.

   turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

   “The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by”

   Synonymscrimsonflushredden

   Broaderdiscolor
2. 2.

   become rosy or reddish

   “her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air”

   Broaderredden

Other forms of blush

plural

blushes·

past tense

blushed·

present participle

blushing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blush

What does blush mean?

blush means "a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blush?

blush has 1 syllable: blush. In IPA it is /ˈblʌʃ/.

What is another word for blush?

Close synonyms include bloom, flush, rosiness, flush, crimson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blush a common word?

blush is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.