Usually means: Color change due to emotion.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. blush: Merriam-Webster
  2. blush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blush, blush: Wordnik
  7. blush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blush: Wiktionary
  9. blush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blush: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blush: Dictionary.com
  13. blush: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Blush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blush: Rhymezone
  19. blush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Blush: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. blush: FreeDictionary.org
  23. blush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. blush: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. blush: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. blush: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blush: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. blush: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Blush: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. blush: Medical dictionary
  6. Blush: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. blush: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
noun:  A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
noun:  (figuratively) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
noun:  A color between pink and cream.
noun:  (chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
verb:  (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
verb:  (intransitive) To become red or pink.
verb:  (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
verb:  (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
verb:  (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
verb:  (aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
noun:  The collective noun for a group of boys.

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