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blushing en · ADJ
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Showing blushes; rosy red.
The dappled pink and blushing rose.
1709, Matthew Prior, The Garland:the blushing bride
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unblushing · antiblushing · blushingly
blushing en · NOUN
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The act of one who blushes; a blush.
In observing the phenomena presented in a case of tubercular meningitis or acute hydrocephalus, one will scarce ever fail of noticing the repeated blushings or suffusions of face in the now insensible or lethargic patient.
1850, Charles Delucena Meigs, Observations on certain of the diseases of young children, page 159:
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blushing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of blush