BLUSHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blushing mean? 

• BLUSHING (adjective)
  The adjective BLUSHING has 1 sense:

1. having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset

  Familiarity information: BLUSHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUSHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset

Synonyms:

blushful; blushing; red-faced

Context example:

was red-faced with anger

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

 Context examples 

“What should you—what should I—how much ought I to—what would it be right to pay the waiter, if you please?” I stammered, blushing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"None at all, if you please, she doesn't wish her name to appear and has no nom de plume," said Jo, blushing in spite of herself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He seemed such a boy, as he stood blushing and stammering his thanks, that a wave of pity, maternal in its prompting, welled up in her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Indeed, Mamma, you are mistaken,” said Elizabeth, blushing for her mother.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am blushing as I write, for although I think he loves me, he has not told me so in words.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Then," said I, blushing, I dare say, as I said it, "let it be named Lake Gladys."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Confused by his notice, and blushing from the fear of its being excited by something wrong in her appearance, she turned away her head.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Had you any idea,” cried Harriet, “of his being in love with her? You, perhaps, might. You (blushing as she spoke) who can see into every body's heart; but nobody else—”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Here are the folk coming, Anson,” said my mother, blushing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, and Marianne's blushing, gave new suspicions to Edward.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)