Webster 1828 · headword: blush
View source image ↗A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.
KJV WORD
COMBINED MEANING
To become red in the face from shame or confusion; by extension, to show shame.
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HISTORICAL DEFINITIONS
A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.
To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing.
KJV CONCORDANCE