Word Finder - blushed

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To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

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He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him.

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• go red

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To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).

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To become red.

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To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.

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To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).

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I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink.

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To express or make known by blushing.

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Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.

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To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.

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The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.

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To glance with the eye, cast a glance.

Denisov blushed too, but smiled and, taking Natasha's hand, kissed it.

Berg blushed and smiled.

She blushed and glanced around the table.

She blushed again at the thought.

She lowered her gaze and blushed even deeper.

She blushed and jerked the pillow case off.

She blushed, smile on her face.

Elisabeth blushed and loosened her grip on the sketchpad.

Adrienne blushed and glanced shyly at Brandon.

Deidre heard the dreamy note in her voice and blushed again.

She blushed and lowered her lids.

She blushed as she realized she was returning his smile.

He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection.

The boy blushed, appeared conflicted, and at last gave a stiff nod.

She had her back to him when he opened the door, but when, turning quickly, she saw his broad, surprised face, she blushed and came rapidly up to him.

They exchanged a heated look so intense Kiera blushed.

In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent.

She asked the question and blushed.

Hannah blushed, and Katie looked at her anew.

The way she blushed about intimacy was amusing and somehow sweet.

She blushed and ducked her head.

She blushed I guess I never thought about it.

She ducked her head and blushed.

Alondra and Felipa laughed when Carmen blushed.

He caught her sharp intake of breath and gave her a rakish smile as she blushed.

Then her eyes widened as she blushed.

Sam glanced up in surprise and blushed.

He glanced at her bare legs and she blushed, squirming in the chair.

D wore judo pants low enough on his hips that she blushed as her gaze followed the trail of hair that disappeared into his pants.

Your toddler will be competing against many other equally flushed, blushed, sprayed, gleaming and utterly beaming toddlerettes who want to win top prizes to nearly the same extent as their mothers.

To her surprise, Alex blushed.

Connie stammered out a prim salutation, still staring at him, and Lisa blushed at Giddon's obvious amusement.

Dean and Fred pretended, without success, to not have heard what Edith was saying while she blushed.

Donnie blushed and Martha pretended she didn't hear so it was up to Dean to introduce her.

Elisabeth blushed causing him to laugh.

She blushed as he leaned over her shoulder to fill her cup.

She blushed and straightened the covers.

The queen blushed, and descending from her throne, kissed them both, without allowing them to kneel.

He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great effort to say this.

Nicholas blushed when he entered the drawing room.

Sonya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking.

Natasha blushed and laughed.

He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word.

Before the conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say.

When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.

Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making a brilliant match-- blushed like a girl.

And Sonya, though she would never have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dolokhov appeared.

He was pointedly attentive to Sonya and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natasha blushed when they saw his looks.

Pierre himself grew still more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed.

Prince Andrew blushed, as he often did now--Natasha particularly liked it in him--and said that his son would not live with them.