What's the difference between blush and shame?

Blush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  • (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
  • (2) Angiography of the internal carotid artery was found useful in demonstrating vascular displacements and tumor blush.
  • (3) However, almost anything can be used to blush water into wine: fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, teabags – whatever you think might taste good.
  • (4) It is concluded that the cervical sympathetic outflow is the main pathway for thermoregulatory flushing and emotional blushing and that diminution or absence of such vasodilator reactions is a usual component of Horner's syndrome unless the responsible lesion is confined to the first thoracic root.
  • (5) While Sergio Agüero has been known to leave it even later before sparing Manchester City’s blushes in the past, he could hardly have picked a better time to offer a reminder of the devastating qualities that make him the most potent striker in the Premier League when his troublesome hamstrings are not playing up.
  • (6) If the diagnosis is still unclear, selective angiography may reveal the tumor blush typical of osteoid osteoma.
  • (7) James focused a the "poor man's thermography"--a technique involving cooling of the breast by ethyl chloride sprayed onto a sponge and observing for a "blush" during recovery.
  • (8) In 58 patients with no blush, 48 showed a final diagnosis of malignant breast disease.
  • (9) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
  • (10) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (11) Parents of children in the age range 3 to 12 years were asked about their children's embarrassment and blushing during the previous six months.
  • (12) Early venous filling and vascular blush have been known for a long time with cerebral inflammatory disease, but venous drainage through irregular veins is unusual.
  • (13) An angiogram done in one patient showed a capillary blush and early cortical draining veins in the corresponding area.
  • (14) The angiographic phase of the bone scan demonstrated a well-defined radionuclide blush within the pelvis just cephalad to the urinary bladder with persistent hyperemia noted in the blood-pool image.
  • (15) This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention.
  • (16) Both absolute and proportional increases were consistent with the view that the greater vascular capacitance in the visible, superficial cutaneous vasculature in the blush area accounts for the limited distribution of flushing in response to a systemic stimulus.
  • (17) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
  • (18) Left vertebral angiography demonstrated a faint tumor blush which was confirmed to be fed by the medial and the lateral posterior choroidal and the thalamo-perforating arteries bilaterally.
  • (19) As well as that season’s first, he also saved Flanagan’s blushes there; the young full-back had conceded a needless corner with a loose cushioned header sent in the vague direction of his keeper.
  • (20) Only blushing is an expression of a reaction behaviour characteristic of human beings only.

Shame


Definition:

  • (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
  • (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
  • (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
  • (n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
  • (v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
  • (v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
  • (v. t.) To mock at; to deride.
  • (n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (2) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (3) However, there's been very little mention of what happened in Manchester today – shame on you.
  • (4) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (5) Yogi Breisner, performance manager for the British eventing team, said: "It is a real shame that it has been called off, especially in an Olympic year when a lot of the riders and horses would have been on show.
  • (6) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
  • (7) "The whole thing was stupid, Donald called him at once to discuss it, he had such a go at him, I mean, fuck, it's a shame we didn't record it, he fucked him up good, had such a proper fucking go at him."
  • (8) Significant differences (p less than 0.05-p less than 0.01) were found, suggesting that the Eastern mothers strongly expressed their shame, whereas the Western mothers 'felt ashamed' to express it at all.
  • (9) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
  • (10) He was looking down at his feet - and she realised he felt the shame, too.
  • (11) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
  • (12) I look back at those moments with shame – you look to your parents to protect you so, when it seems they are falling apart, you lash out at them because you feel vulnerable.
  • (13) We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity.
  • (14) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (15) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
  • (16) "The house itself isn't very old ... it's a great shame."
  • (17) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
  • (18) Reda Eldanbouki, director of the women’s centre for guidance and legal awareness, an Egyptian NGO based in al-Mansoura, said it was shameful for Hijazi to ask the eight presenters to only come back in front of camera once their appearance has become “appropriate”.
  • (19) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
  • (20) He said similar “name and shame” legislation had run afoul of the first amendment and that the rule may be unconstitutional.