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say it: BLUHSH-ing
blushing is an adjective meaning "having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset". It is pronounced /ˈblʌʃɪŋ/ — BLUHSH-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
“the blushing boy was brought before the Principal”
“her blushful beau”
“was red-faced with anger”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blushing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.