Synonyms for BLUSH
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1. blush

   Synonyms:
   bloom, color, carnation, complexion, aspect, shame, confusion, guiltiness, self-reproach

   Antonyms:
   innocence, purity, guiltlessness, unconsciousness, boldness, effrontery

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1. bloom, blush, flush, rosinessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   outpouring, ruddiness, rush, bang, blooming, rose, thrill, kick, bloom of youth, blush, charge, blossom, gush, heyday, prime, hot flash, flower, bloom, efflorescence, peak, rosiness, flush, boot, salad days

2. blush, flushverb

   sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

   Synonyms:
   outpouring, bang, thrill, kick, blush, charge, blossom, gush, heyday, prime, hot flash, flower, bloom, efflorescence, peak, rosiness, flush, boot, rush

3. blush, crimson, flush, reddenverb

   turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

   Synonyms:
   scour, sluice, crimson, purge, blush, even out, level, redden, flush, even

4. blushverb

   become rosy or reddish

   "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

   Synonyms:
   flush, redden, crimson

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1. • Good Health
   • Redden

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1. blushverb

   Synonyms:
   redden (in the cheeks), color

2. blushnoun

   Synonyms:
   reddening (of the cheeks), suffusion of the face

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1. List of paraphrases for "blush":

   redness, blushing

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1. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6:

   But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

3. Mark Warner:

   This is one more example of one of the President's closest allies lying about their ties to Russia and Russians, in this first blush looking, just remarkable that you have the President's personal lawyer still dealing on a Trump Tower project through the whole campaign, through 2017.

4. Menander:

   The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.

5. Gavin Newsom:

   He is to the right of Donald Trump, he would make, honestly, Donald Trump blush.