I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go/turn/flush/blush crimson
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The boy blushed crimson.
go/turn/flush/blush scarlet
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Eileen blushed scarlet at the joke.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carlos blushes every time he talks to her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And other feelings, too, which made me blush .
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I positively blush like a sophomore when I think of what you said!
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She laughed and the Chief blushed.
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She waited, watching him, pleased to see the color come back and then touched to realize that he was blushing.
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Terry's eyebrows went up and she felt herself blushing furiously.
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Their heat-patterns flared, as if they were blushing all over.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
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If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches, there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice.
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Perhaps you shout epithets that would make Quentin Tarantino blush .
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Apparently even scaled down Tony Adams would make Jamie Theakston blush in the showers.
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I have a blue-tinged vocabulary that could make a construction worker blush .
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Over the past few years the pace of his acquisitions would make Rupert Murdoch blush .
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Eddie rips down the court and passes to no one, an unforced turnover that makes her blush .
spare
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We will spare the blushes of those forecasters' who notched up the biggest errors.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spare sb's blushes
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Susan confessed with a blush that she'd been watching him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And as she remembered her own vivid imaginings a blush crept up her throat to flood her cheeks with hot colour.
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At first blush , this is a compelling concept.
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I said that I could not remember whether such a thing had ever occurred and managed to stifle a blush .
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Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food.
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She had rubbed blush on her cheekbones but it was wearing thin in the heat.
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This Government has all the conviction of a blush on Madonna's cheek.