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Webster 1913 Edition
Redden
Red′den
(r?d′d’n)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reddened
(-d’nd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Reddening
.] [From ]
Red
, Adj.
To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
Red′den
,Verb.
I.
To grow or become red; to blush.
Appius
reddens
at each word you speak. Pope.
He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek
reddened
than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Redden
REDDEN
,Verb.
T.
REDDEN
,Verb.
I.
1.
To grow or become red.- The coral redden and the ruby glow.
2.
To blush.Appius reddens at each word you speak.
Definition 2024
Redden
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See also: Redden
English
Verb
redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)
- (intransitive) To become red or redder.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
- But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
- 1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
- Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
- 1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32,
- When the sun-god saw that, and the reddening sky
- And the waning moon seeming to thaw
- He called the Hours to yoke the horses.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
- (transitive) To make red or redder.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4,
- God redden your pale blood!
- 1942, Wallace Stevens, "Country Words" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Knopf, 1971, p. 207,
- […] If the cloud that hangs
- Upon the heart and round the mind
- Cleared from the north and in that height
- The sun appeared and reddened great
- Belshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rude
- With rubies then, attend me now.
- 1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, 1974, p. 19,
- Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele,
- Crown your hair with ivy
- Turn your fingers green with bryony
- Redden your walls with berries.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4,
Translations
to become red
|
to make red
Related terms
Derived terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną. Compare German retten. Compare also Icelandic redda (“to fix”) (a borrowing from a continental Germanic language).
Verb
redden
Inflection
| Inflection of redden (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | redden | |||
| past singular | redde | |||
| past participle | gered | |||
| infinitive | redden | |||
| gerund | redden n | |||
| verbal noun | — | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | red | redde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | redt | redde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | redt | redde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | redt | redde | ||
| 3rd person singular | redt | redde | ||
| plural | redden | redden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | redde | redde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | redden | redden | ||
| imperative sing. | red | |||
| imperative plur.1 | redt | |||
| participles | reddend | gered | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||