Dictionary Entry
blush
blush is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
- 3intransitive verb
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
- 4transitive verb
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
- 5transitive verb
To express or make known by blushing.
- 6noun
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
- 7noun
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
- 8noun
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Synonyms
- 9noun
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- 10verb
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
- 11verb
become rosy or reddish
"her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"
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