Blush vs. Rouge
Blushnoun
An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
Blushnoun
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
Blushnoun
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
Blushnoun
A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
Blushnoun
A color between pink and cream.
Blushnoun
A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
Blushverb
(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
Blushverb
To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
Blushverb
(intransitive) To become red.
Blushverb
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
Blushverb
(transitive) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
Blushverb
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
Blushverb
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
Blushverb
To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
Blushverb
To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
Blushverb
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
Blushverb
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Blushverb
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
Blushverb
To express or make known by blushing.
Blushnoun
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
Blushnoun
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Blushnoun
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Blushnoun
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Blushverb
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
Blushverb
become rosy or reddish;
Blushverb
show shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face
Blushverb
feel embarrassed or ashamed
Blushverb
be or become pink or pale red
Blushnoun
a reddening of the face as a sign of shyness, embarrassment, or shame
Blushnoun
a pink or pale red tinge
Blushnoun
a wine with a slight pink tint made in the manner of white wine but from red grape varieties
Blushnoun
another term for blusher (sense 1)
Rougeadjective
Of a reddish pink colour.
Rougenoun
Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
Rougenoun
Any reddish pink colour.
Rougenoun
(Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.)
Rougenoun
(obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
Rougenoun
In the Eton College field game a five-point score awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball. Also, from 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football.
Rougenoun
A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.
Rougeverb
(ambitransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).
Rougeadjective
red.
Rougenoun
A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
Rougenoun
A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
Rougeverb
To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
Rougeverb
To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
Rougenoun
makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
Rougeverb
redden by applying rouge to;
Rougenoun
a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips
Rougenoun
short for jeweller's rouge
Rougenoun
(in Canadian football) a single point awarded when the receiving team fails to run a kick out of its own end zone.
Rougeverb
colour with rouge
Rougeverb
apply rouge to one's cheeks
Rougeadjective
(of wine) red.
