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blushing

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈblʌʃɪŋ//

The act of one who blushes; a blush.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of blushpresent participle and gerund of blush

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who blushes; a blush.

    In observing the phenomena presented in a case of tubercular meningitis or acute hydrocephalus, one will scarce ever fail of noticing the repeated blushings or suffusions of face in the now insensible or lethargic patient.

adjective

  1. 1

    Showing blushes; rosy red.

    the blushing bride

    The dappled pink and blushing rose.

Forms

plural
blushings
comparative
more blushing
superlative
most blushing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).