1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
   "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
   - crimson, flush, redden 
2. Become rosy or reddish
   "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

1. A rosy colour (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
   - bloom, flush, rosiness 
2. Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
   - flush

Derived forms: blushing, blushed, blushes

See also: blusher

Type of: color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], good health, healthiness, inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, redden, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex

Encyclopedia: Blush

• genus Mammillaria
• genus Mammut
• genus Mammuthus
• genus Mandevilla
• genus Mandragora
• genus Mandrillus
• genus Manduca
• genus Mangifera
• genus Manglietia
• genus Manihot
• genus Manilkara
• genus Manis
• genus Manta
• genus Mantis
• genus Maranta
• genus Marasmius
• genus Marattia
• genus Marchantia
• genus Marmota
• genus Marrubium
• genus Marsilea
• genus Martes
• genus Martynia
• genus Masdevallia
• genus Masticophis