Flushed vs Blushed - What's the difference?
flushed | blushed |
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(flush)
(blush)
An act of blushing.
(uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
A color between pink and cream.
To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
* Milton
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
To become red.
* Shakespeare
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
* Shakespeare
To express or make known by blushing.
* Shakespeare
To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
* T. Gray
The collective noun for a group of boys.
As verbs the difference between flushed and blushed
is that flushed is past tense of flush while blushed is past tense of blush.As an adjective flushed
is red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.flushed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed ; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.
Synonyms
* blushing * red * red-facedVerb
(head)blushed
English
Verb
(head)blush
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .Noun
(es)Derived terms
* blush is off the rose * at first blushVerb
(es)- To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
- But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
- To blush and beautify the cheek again.
- I'll blush you thanks.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Synonyms
* flushing * reddeningEtymology 2
1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.Noun
(es)- A blush of boys.