as in color
a rosy appearance (of the cheeks)
a baby with a healthy blush
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as in to glow
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)
she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake
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Recent Examples of blush
Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 9 Feb. 2026
There are now even Clinique Black Honey products for the face, including blush and mascara.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
Taylor Augustin Littlejohn, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
Lip blushing, a semi-permanent tattoo that can enhance the color and shape of your lips, has emerged as a popular beauty treatment, and one that 24-year-old Hon was interested in.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Shades like blush pink, mint green, and baby blue are too 1950s for the designer.
—Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 9 Feb. 2026
There are now even Clinique Black Honey products for the face, including blush and mascara.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
Baby pink auras add a blushing effect.
—Taylor Augustin Littlejohn, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
Lip blushing, a semi-permanent tattoo that can enhance the color and shape of your lips, has emerged as a popular beauty treatment, and one that 24-year-old Hon was interested in.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blush
Noun
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The shop’s towering shelves are piled with fedoras, porkpies, boaters, and flat caps in the usual colors—browns, blacks, blues—as well as the hues of cantaloupe flesh, crème de violette, and raspberry sherbet.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The pants are offered in several colors and sizes, including classic black, Charcoal, Caramel, and brighter shades like Light Azure and pink.—
Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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That leads to high temperatures, which create a glowing protostar due to the rapid (kinetic) motion of the internal gas particles, and eventually, after a few tens of millions of years, the core temperatures rise high enough (above 4 million K or so) that nuclear fusion of hydrogen begins.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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Now imagine the same with some of those teary eyes angled down toward glowing screens, while others frame the bride with their phones.—
Nikita Khanna,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Kickstarter campaign is also offering a slightly less capable model that's ticks all of the above boxes except for brightness, which comes in at 2,600 ISO lumens for the Pro variant.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Feb. 2026
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Giving the camera longer exposure increases brightness but may reduce definition if the aurora is active.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
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Every time the topic arose, her school friends in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, flushed with embarrassment, Omer recalled.—
Sana Noor Haq,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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This looks very compact, but does contain a vanity sink, a shower, and a flushing toilet.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Feb. 2026
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The vivid hues of wildflowers like mariposa lilies, desert five-spot, and lilac sunbonnets transform Death Valley starting in mid-February, although blooms can last well into the summer months in the park’s higher, cooler elevations.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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But the large sand dunes here (the highest on the Gulf coast) bloom with blue lupine flowers.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Kalen DeBoer went from hot seat to crimson ottoman at the end of September, when No. 17 Alabama pushed past No. 5 Georgia at Sanford Stadium.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
3 Dec. 2025
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Riding the rails gives you time to slow down and look at the canopy’s changing hues, from chartreuse to crimson.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Blush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blush. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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