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BLUSHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
Example:
was red-faced with anger
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
discomposed (having your composure disturbed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blush
Context examples:
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I would fain stay here forever amid all these beautiful things— staring hard at the blushing Tita as he spoke—but we must be back at our lord's hostel ere he reach it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the body, involuntary actions (such as blushing) occur automatically, and cannot be controlled by choice.
(Involuntary, NCI Dictionary)
Then she was shrinking again into herself, and blushing and working as hard as ever; but it had been enough to give Edmund encouragement for his friend, and as he cordially thanked him, he hoped to be expressing Fanny's secret feelings too.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Feeling that she must get through the matter somehow, Jo produced her manuscript and, blushing redder and redder with each sentence, blundered out fragments of the little speech carefully prepared for the occasion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And though he sat there, blushing and humble, again she felt drawn to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To my amazement, the dearest girl in the world came at that same instant, laughing and blushing, from her place of concealment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The sitting began; and Harriet, smiling and blushing, and afraid of not keeping her attitude and countenance, presented a very sweet mixture of youthful expression to the steady eyes of the artist.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I do not know what I was thinking of” (blushing again that she had blushed before); “James only means to give me good advice.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He stood up with my two hands in his, and as he looked down into my face—I am afraid I was blushing very much—he said:—'Little girl, I hold your hand, and you've kissed me, and if these things don't make us friends nothing ever will. Thank you for your sweet honesty to me, and good-bye.'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
