blush (【Verb】to become red in the face because one feels embarrassed ) Meaning, Usage, and Readings

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"blush" Meaning

blush

/blʌʃ/

Verb

to become red in the face because one feels embarrassed

"blush" Example Sentences

She blushed and said "yes" quietly when I asked her on a date.

"blush" Related Lesson Material

Scientists don't really understand why we blush.

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A crimson blush came over Juliet's face when she reflected upon the discovery which she had made, yet not meaning to make it, of her love to Romeo.

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It was found that people blushed more when watching themselves sing — although some even blushed when watching others, something called "empathetic blushing."

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At this moment, Scrooge's niece's sister blushed.

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Participants' brains were scanned while they watched, and their cheek temperatures were checked for blushing.

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Researchers in the Netherlands and Italy thought people might be — so they used videos of people singing karaoke to study blushing.

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The researchers found that participants who blushed more showed more activity in a part of the brain that has been connected with processing emotions.

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The researchers said this shows that blushing isn't caused by thinking about how others see us, but is an unthinking response to feeling socially exposed.

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"Blushing can come simply from being exposed," the study's first author, Milica Nikolic, told The Guardian — adding that, when it happens, people probably aren't thinking about things like how they look.

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The dancing being done, Romeo watched the place where the lady stood; and under favor of his masking habit, which might seem to excuse in part the liberty, he dared in the gentlest manner to take her by the hand, calling it a shrine, which if he profaned by touching it, he was a blushing pilgrim and would kiss it for forgiveness.

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