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Blushing vs Aflush - What's the difference?

blushing | aflush |

As adjectives the difference between blushing and aflush

is that blushing is showing blushes; rosy red while aflush is (archaic|or|poetic) flushed, blushing.

As a verb blushing

is .

As a noun blushing

is the act of one who blushes; a blush.

blushing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who blushes; a blush.
  • * 1850 , Charles Delucena Meigs, Observations on certain of the diseases of young children (page 159)
    • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing blushes; rosy red.
    • the blushing bride
  • * Prior
    • The dappled pink and blushing rose.

    Derived terms

    * blushingly

    aflush

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic, or, poetic) flushed, blushing
  • * {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Thomas De Witt Talmage, title=New Tabernacle Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That is the resurrection angel, his lips still aquiver and his cheek aflush with the blast that shattered the cemeteries and woke the dead. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Various, title=Different Girls, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As the old mother sits there so quiet in her corner, her body worn to a silver thread, and hardly anything left of her but her indomitable eyes, it is hard, at least for a young thing of nineteen, all aflush and aflurry with her new party gown, to realize that that old mother is infinitely more romantic than herself. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Go ahead," the quarter-deck bade him, seeing him aflush with information. " }}