Definitions
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
Word origin
From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Used in a sentence
“Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege, Whom thou obeyed’st thirty and six years, And not bewray thy treason with a blush?”
“Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush.”
“It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion […]”
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01“Flush”5 letters
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