- [countable] the red colour that spreads over your face when you are embarrassed or ashamed
- She felt a warm blush rise to her cheeks.
- He turned away to hide his blushes.
Extra ExamplesTopics Appearancec1- A blush spread from his head to his neck.
- She lowered her eyes with a deep blush.
- a blush of embarrassment
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crimson
- deep
- faint
- …
- hide
- deepen
- colour/color somebody’s cheeks
- creep
- …
- with a blush
- without a blush
- blush of
- …
- a blush comes to somebody’s cheeks
- a blush comes to somebody’s face
- bring a blush to somebody’s cheeks
- …
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- (North American English) (also blusher British and North American English)[uncountable, countable] a coloured cream or powder that some people put on their cheeks (= on their faces below the eyes) to give them more colour
Word OriginOld English blyscan; related to modern Dutch blozen.
Idioms
See blush in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryspare somebody’s blushes
- (British English) to save somebody from an embarrassing situation
- A last minute goal spared their blushes.
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