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blush

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臉紅,羞愧弄成紅色臉紅

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed}
   (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to
   shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a
   torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to
   blaze, blush.]
   1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense
      of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such
      cause, as the cheeks or face.

            To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the
            morn.                                 --Milton.

            In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the
            young offender is ashamed to blush.   --Buckminster.

            He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous
            worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper.

   2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

            The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But
            stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak.

   3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other
      flowers.

            Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T.
                                                  Gray.

Blush \Blush\, v. t.
   1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
      [Obs.]

            To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.

   2. To express or make known by blushing.

            I'll blush you thanks.                --Shak.

Blush \Blush\, n.
   1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
      sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

            The rosy blush of love.               --Trumbull.

   2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

            Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
                                                  --Lyttleton.

   {At first blush}, or {At the first blush}, at the first
      appearance or view. ``At the first blush, we thought they
      had been ships come from France.'' --Hakluyt.

   Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc.,
         than of material things. ``All purely identical
         propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,''
         etc. --Locke.

   {To put to the blush}, to cause to blush with shame; to put
      to shame.

資料來源 : WordNet®

blush
     n 1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of
          good health [syn: {bloom}, {flush}, {rosiness}]
     2: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt
        or shame or modesty) [syn: {flush}]
     v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed
          when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: {crimson},
           {flush}, {redden}]
     2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold
        winter air"
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