transitive. To cover with bloom; to impart a fresh or ruddy appearance to.

transferred. Of the blood: To suffuse with colour. Also in passive, to be (naturally) spotted or streaked with colour.

transitive. With extended force: To express, exhibit, make known by blushing. Chiefly poetic.

transitive. figurative. Of liquor: to cause (the face) to become flushed or suffused with glowing colour; cf. sense 5b. Obsolete.

transitive. To make red or ruddy; to cause to blush or glow.

transitive. To flush over, to cover with a flush.

transitive. To express by blushing. Cf. blush, v. 3c. Obsolete.