blushing

/blʌʃ/ (bre, ipa) · [blˈʌʃɪŋ] /blʌʃ/ (ame, ipa) · [blˈʌʃɪŋ] /ˈblə-shiŋ/ (ame, mw)

blushing — verb

  • blushingpresent simple I / you / we / they
  • blushings3rd person singular
  • blushinging-ing form
  • blushingedpast simple

1. to go red in the face because you feel shy, ashamed, or awkward

1.動詞不及物B1
釋義

to go red in the face because you feel shy, ashamed, or awkward

例句

Hao felt himself blushing when the teacher held up his drawing.

feel oneself blushing — reflexive pattern

Mira started blushing the moment her phone rang during the quiet meeting.

同義詞
  • flush

    often from heat, fever, or strong emotion like anger, not only embarrassment

  • redden

    more general; the face can redden from sun, cold, or crying, not just emotion

  • colour

    British English, slightly formal or literary

反義詞
  • pale

    to lose colour in the face, often from fear or shock

文法句型

blush + when-clause

blush + at + noun phrase

feel + reflexive pronoun + blushing

用法筆記

Intransitive. The subject is almost always a person. Very common in continuous forms (was blushing, started blushing).

常見錯誤

❌I blushed my face when he spoke.
✅I blushed when he spoke.
💡'blush' is intransitive; you cannot blush a body part.
❌She was blushing from anger.
✅She was blushing from embarrassment.
💡'blushing' is tied to embarrassment, shyness, or shame, not anger (use 'flushed with anger' instead).

blushing — adjective