REDDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redden mean? 

• REDDEN (verb)
  The verb REDDEN has 3 senses:

1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

2. make red

3. turn red or redder

  Familiarity information: REDDEN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDDEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they redden    ... he / she / it reddens   
Past simple: reddened   
Past participle: reddened   
-ing form: reddening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

blush; crimson; flush; redden

Context example:

The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

Hypernyms (to "redden" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make red

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The setting sun reddened the sky

Hypernyms (to "redden" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redden"):

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Turn red or redder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The sky reddened

Hypernyms (to "redden" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redden"):

blush (become rosy or reddish)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

This map allows astronomers to know when the targets of their observations may be suffering a reddening effect, and how much reddening they can expect.

(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)

At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen sun was reddening even Mrs. Harker's pale face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Pooh! nonsense!” said Mr. Spenlow, reddening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Norris, who had begun to redden, was appeased; and, for a little while, other subjects took place of the improvements of Sotherton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Reddening of the skin from a transient increase in blood flow.

(Flushing, NCI Thesaurus)

I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Walt's face reddened, and the striking-muscles of his arms and shoulders seemed to stiffen and grow tense.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The clinical features include focal skin reddening, and eczema.

(Paget Disease of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

A transient reddening of the face that may be due to fever, certain drugs, exertion, stress, or a disease process.

(Flushing, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)