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blushing

/bluhsh/US // blʌʃ //UK // (blʌʃ) //

脸红,脸红心跳,脸红了,脸红脖子粗

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
    • : to feel shame or embarrassment: Your behavior makes me blush for your poor mother.
    • : to become rosy.
    • : to become cloudy or dull through moisture or excessive evaporation of solvents.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to make red; flush.
    • : to make known by a blush: She could not help blushing the truth.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a reddening, as of the face.
    • : rosy or pinkish tinge.
    • : Also called blush·er, blush-on . a cosmetic used to add a pink or reddish color to the cheeks.
    • : Also called blush wine . rosé.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • That failure has the reddest state in the nation blushing blue.

  • Chuck Todd solemnized his marriage to Meet the Press, NBC News's 67-year-old public affairs program, much like a blushing bride.

  • Watts does a good, blushing sideways glance and has her flat upper class intonations off to a tee.

  • She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away.

  • Audience members could ask earnest, unselfconscious questions like whether e-books were real books without blushing.

  • Nature seems still to wish to keep the young and blushing girl apart from that connection which entails grave and arduous duties.

  • At this poem Mary professed herself delighted; for she was long past blushing at lip service.

  • He has often come to ask after you,” she said blushing, “but he is afraid to see you, lest it should do you harm just now.

  • "I have not sent for you for nothing, Oswald," she said, blushing a little as if it were a hard matter she had to speak of.

  • Another titter through the court-room, the colonel and the squire blushing redder than ever.