Blush vs. Laugh — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blush and Laugh
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Blush
Show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face
Kate felt herself blushing scarlet
She blushed at the unexpected compliment
Laugh
To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
Blush
Be or become pink or pale red
The trees are loaded with blushing blossoms
Laugh
To show or feel amusement or good humor
An experience we would laugh about later on.
Blush
A reddening of the face as a sign of shyness, embarrassment, or shame
He had brought a faint blush to her cheeks
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Laugh
To feel or express derision or contempt; mock
I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
Blush
A pink or pale red tinge
The roses were white with a lovely pink blush
Laugh
To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being
You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
Blush
A wine with a slight pink tint made in the manner of white wine but from red grape varieties
Blush Zinfandel
Laugh
To produce sounds resembling laughter
Parrots laughing and chattering in the trees.
Blush
Another term for blusher (sense 1)
Laugh
To affect or influence by laughter
Laughed the speaker off the stage.
Laughed the proposal down.
Blush
To become red in the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame; flush.
Laugh
To say with a laugh
He laughed his delight at the victory.
Blush
To become red or rosy.
Laugh
The act of laughing.
Blush
To feel embarrassed or ashamed
Blushed at his own audacity.
Laugh
The sound of laughing; laughter.
Blush
A reddening of the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame.
Laugh
(Informal) Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke
The solution they recommended was a laugh.
Blush
A red or rosy color
The blush of dawn.
Laugh
Often laughs(Informal) Fun; amusement
Went along just for laughs.
Blush
A glance, look, or view
Thought the painting genuine at first blush.
Laugh
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
His deep laughs boomed through the room.
Blush
Makeup used on the face and especially on the cheekbones to give a usually rosy tint. Also called blusher.
Laugh
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.
Blush
An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
Laugh
A fun person.
Blush
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
Laugh
(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
Blush
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
Laugh
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
Blush
A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
Laugh
To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
Blush
A color between pink and cream.
Laugh
(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Blush
A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
Laugh
(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.
Blush
The collective noun for a group of boys.
A blush of boys.
Laugh
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.
He laugheth that winneth.
Blush
(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
The love scene made him blush to the roots of his hair / to the tips of his ears.
He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him.
Laugh
Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned.
In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy.
No wit to flatter left of all his store,No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.
Blush
To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
Laugh
To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
I shall laugh myself to death.
Blush
(intransitive) To become red.
Laugh
To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.
Blush
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
Laugh
The sound of laughing
Blush
(copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.
I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink.
Laugh
A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing;
His face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision
Blush
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.
Laugh
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;
He told a very funny joke
He knows a million gags
Thanks for the laugh
He laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest
Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
Blush
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.
Laugh
Produce laughter
Blush
To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
Blush
Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
Blush
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 bowerI led her blushing like the morn.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.
He would strokeThe head of modest and ingenuous worth,That blushed at its own praise.
Blush
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.
Blush
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Blush
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
Blush
To express or make known by blushing.
I'll blush you thanks.
Blush
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
The rosy blush of love.
Blush
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
Blush
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Blush
Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Blush
Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
Blush
Become rosy or reddish;
Her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air
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