blush
verb

- become red in the face through shyness or embarrassment

Compact English Oxford Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

The meaning of this word has a long and complicated history. Blush can be traced back to around 1350 when the Middle English words blissen/blishen meant to glance, look or stare at. The sense of a reddening or a rosy colour of the face was first recorded at the end of the 16th century.

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QUOTABLE QUOTE

“Man is the only animal that BLUSHES. Or needs to.”

Mark Twain

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SYNONYMS

BLUSH, go beetroot, go pink, go red in the face, grow scarlet, feel ashamed, feel embarrassed, feel sheepish, turn crimson

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PRACTICE OWAD in an English conversation, say something like:

“The waiter BLUSHED after spilling wine on to my jacket."

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