blush
to turn red in the face from embarrassment
TRANSLATION
blush = erröten, sich schämen (vor Scham oder Verlegenheit)
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
“The airports of the future could identify potential terrorists by using a lie detector that spots concealed BLUSHING with a super-sensitive thermal imaging camera.”
BBC News
Did you
know?
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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