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red·den

 (rĕd′n)
v. red·dened, red·den·ing, red·dens
v.tr.
To make red.
v.intr.
1. To become red.
2. To blush.
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redden

(ˈrɛdən)
vb
1. to make or become red
2. (intr) to flush with embarrassment, anger, etc; blush
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red•den

(ˈrɛd n)

v.t.
1. to make or cause to become red.
v.i.
2. to become red.
3. to blush; flush.
[1605–15]
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redden


Past participle: reddened
Gerund: reddening

Imperative
redden
redden
Present
I redden
you redden
he/she/it reddens
we redden
you redden
they redden
Preterite
I reddened
you reddened
he/she/it reddened
we reddened
you reddened
they reddened
Present Continuous
I am reddening
you are reddening
he/she/it is reddening
we are reddening
you are reddening
they are reddening
Present Perfect
I have reddened
you have reddened
he/she/it has reddened
we have reddened
you have reddened
they have reddened
Past Continuous
I was reddening
you were reddening
he/she/it was reddening
we were reddening
you were reddening
they were reddening
Past Perfect
I had reddened
you had reddened
he/she/it had reddened
we had reddened
you had reddened
they had reddened
Future
I will redden
you will redden
he/she/it will redden
we will redden
you will redden
they will redden
Future Perfect
I will have reddened
you will have reddened
he/she/it will have reddened
we will have reddened
you will have reddened
they will have reddened
Future Continuous
I will be reddening
you will be reddening
he/she/it will be reddening
we will be reddening
you will be reddening
they will be reddening
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been reddening
you have been reddening
he/she/it has been reddening
we have been reddening
you have been reddening
they have been reddening
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been reddening
you will have been reddening
he/she/it will have been reddening
we will have been reddening
you will have been reddening
they will have been reddening
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been reddening
you had been reddening
he/she/it had been reddening
we had been reddening
you had been reddening
they had been reddening
Conditional
I would redden
you would redden
he/she/it would redden
we would redden
you would redden
they would redden
Past Conditional
I would have reddened
you would have reddened
he/she/it would have reddened
we would have reddened
you would have reddened
they would have reddened
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.redden - turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
2.redden - make red; "The setting sun reddened the sky"
color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
madder - color a moderate to strong red
encrimson - make crimson
vermilion - color vermilion
carmine - color carmine
rubify - make ruby red
ruddle - redden as if with a red ocher color
3.redden - turn red or redder; "The sky reddened"
discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
blush - become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"
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redden

verb flush, colour (up), blush, crimson, suffuse, go red, go beetroot (informal) She reddened instantly.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

redden

verb
To become red in the face:
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Translations
يَحْمَريُحَمِّر
načervenitzačervenat se
farve rødmale rødrødme
bevörösítelvörösödikpirosít
rjóîa; mála rauîanroîna
načerveniťzačervenať sa
kıpkırmızı olmakkızar makkızarmak

redden

[ˈredn]
A. VTenrojecer, teñir de rojo
B. VI
1. [sky, leaves] → enrojecerse, ponerse rojo
2. [person] (= blush) → ponerse colorado, ruborizarse; (with anger) → ponerse rojo or colorado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

redden

[ˈrɛdən]
vi
(gen)rougir
[person, cheeks] (with embarrassment, anger)rougir
vtrougir
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

redden

vtröten; sky, foliagerot färben
vi (face)sich röten; (person)rot werden; (sky, foliage)sich rot färben
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

redden

[ˈrɛdn]
1. vtarrossare, tingere di rosso
2. vi (sky, leaves) → diventar rosso, tingersi di rosso; (person) → arrossire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

red

(red) noun, adjective
1. (of) the colour of blood. a red car/dress / cheeks; red cheeks; a red car/dress / cheeks; Her eyes were red with crying.
2. (of hair or fur) (of) a colour which varies between a golden brown and a deep reddish-brown.
3. (a) communist. Red China; A lot of his university friends are Reds.
the Red Army
the army of the former USSR.
ˈredden verb
1. to make or become red or redder. to redden the lips with lipstick.
2. to blush. She reddened as she realized her mistake.
ˈreddish adjective
slightly red. reddish hair.
ˈredness noun
ˈredcurrant noun
a type of garden bush grown for its small red fruit.
ˈredhead noun
a person with red hair.
red herring
1. something that leads people away from the main point in a discussion.
2. a false clue or line of enquiry.
ˌred-ˈhot adjective
(of metal etc) so hot that it is glowing red. red-hot steel; This iron is red-hot.
Red Indian
a North American Indian.
red-letter day
a day which will always be remembered because of something especially good that happened on it.
red tape
annoying and unnecessary rules and regulations.
be in the red
to be in debt.
catch red-handed
to find (a person) in the act of doing wrong. The police caught the thief red-handed.
see red
to become angry. When he started criticizing my work, I really saw red.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

redden

v. enrojecer, teñir de rojo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
Always he reddens in the face when he is addressed, and becomes too confused to answer.
The boy looked down quickly and reddened. Philip saw that he felt he had asked an unseemly question.
Reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican colour, in winding and tramping through them, as they had reddened them below the snow with a deeper dye, they carried him thus into the courtyard of the building where he lived.
"My words must make a deep impression on you, since you remember them so well," said Levin, and suddenly conscious that he had said just the same thing before, he reddened.
All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.
Then he felt a jealousy which be could never have believed possible awakening within him, a jealousy which made him redden with shame and indignation: "One might condone the captain, but this one!" This thought upset him.
At first the talk was a little gloomy, and ran mainly upon the shortness of life, the uncertainty of it, the perils which beset it, and the need and wisdom of being always prepared for the worst; this shaded off into low-voiced references to the dangers of the deep, and kindred matters; but as the gray east began to redden and the mysterious solemnity and silence of the dawn to give place to the joy-songs of the birds, the talk took a cheerier tone, and our spirits began to rise steadily.
I call to mind a winter landscape in Amsterdam - a flat foreground of waste land, with here and there stacks of timber, like the huts of a camp of some very miserable tribe; the long stretch of the Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, because, as the master stevedore (a gentle, pale person, with a few golden hairs on his chin and a reddened nose) informed me, their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts.
Across the desolate plain, stripped bare of all vegetation, and made hideous forever by the growth of a mighty industry, where the furnace fires reddened the sky, and only the unbroken line of ceaseless lights showed where town dwindled into village and suburbs led back again into town.
His countenance reddened with the anger of a man whose respectability is being threatened.
This nose vigorously divided a pale face into two sections which seemed to have no knowledge of each other, for one side would redden under the process of digestion, while the other continued white.
The young man reddened. "I didn't have to wait for their cue, if that's what you mean, sir.