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

1. intransitive 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.
2. intransitive verb. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
3. intransitive verb. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
4. transitive verb. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
5. transitive verb. To express or make known by blushing.
6. noun. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
7. noun. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
8. noun. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

   Synonyms: flush

9. noun. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

   Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness

10. verb. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

    Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden

11. verb. become rosy or reddish

    "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

Synonyms

flush, bloom, rosiness, crimson, redden

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blush:

buhls, shlub

Common word forms

blushed, blusher, blushes, blushful, blushing, blushless

Words from these letters

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