blush vs paint

blush

verb
  • To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade). 

  • To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers. 

  • Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions. 

  • To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something). 

  • To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment. 

  • To become red. 

  • To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy. 

  • To express or make known by blushing. 

noun
  • Feeling or appearance of optimism. 

  • A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. 

  • A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation. 

  • The collective noun for a group of boys. 

  • An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc. 

  • A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red. 

  • A color between pink and cream. 

paint

verb
  • To color one's face by way of beautifying it. 

  • To direct a radar beam toward. 

  • To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part. 

  • To apply paint to. 

  • To create (an image) with paints. 

  • To apply in the manner that paint is applied. 

  • To draw an element in a graphical user interface. 

  • To depict or portray. 

  • To practise the art of painting pictures. 

  • To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint. 

noun
  • Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated. 

  • A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. 

  • The free-throw lane, construed with the. 

  • A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. 

  • Paintballs. 

  • Tattoo work. 

  • The appearance of an object on a radar screen. 

  • Makeup. 

  • A face card (king, queen, or jack). 

How often have the words blush and paint occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )