Redden vs. Blush

Reddenverb

(intransitive) To become red or redder.

Blushnoun

An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.

Reddenverb

(transitive) To make red or redder.

Blushnoun

A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.

Reddenverb

To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

Blushnoun

(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.

Reddenverb

To grow or become red; to blush.

‘Appius reddens at each word you speak.’; ‘He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued.’;

Blushnoun

A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.

Reddenverb

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;

‘The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by’;

Blushnoun

A color between pink and cream.

Reddenverb

make red;

‘The setting sun reddened the sky’;

Blushnoun

A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.

Reddenverb

turn red or redder;

‘The sky reddened’;

Blushverb

(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.’;

Blushverb

To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).

Blushverb

(intransitive) To become red.

Blushverb

(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.

Blushverb

(transitive) 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.’;

Blushverb

(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.

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

Blushverb

(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.’;

Blushverb

To glance with the eye, cast a glance.

Blushverb

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.’;

Blushverb

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.’;

Blushverb

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

‘Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.’;

Blushverb

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

‘To blush and beautify the cheek again.’;

Blushverb

To express or make known by blushing.

‘I'll blush you thanks.’;

Blushnoun

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

‘The rosy blush of love.’;

Blushnoun

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

‘Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.’;

Blushnoun

a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Blushnoun

sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

Blushverb

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;

‘The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by’;

Blushverb

become rosy or reddish;

‘her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air’;

Blushverb

show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face

‘Kate felt herself blushing scarlet’; ‘she blushed at the unexpected compliment’;

Blushverb

feel embarrassed or ashamed

‘he blushed to think of how he'd paraded himself’;

Blushverb

be or become pink or pale red

‘the trees are loaded with blushing blossoms’;

Blushnoun

a reddening of the face as a sign of shyness, embarrassment, or shame

‘he had brought a faint blush to her cheeks’;

Blushnoun

a pink or pale red tinge

‘the roses were white with a lovely pink blush’;

Blushnoun

a wine with a slight pink tint made in the manner of white wine but from red grape varieties

‘blush Zinfandel’;

Blushnoun

another term for blusher (sense 1)