REDDENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reddened mean? 

• REDDENED (adjective)
  The adjective REDDENED has 2 senses:

1. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

2. lighted with red light as if with flames

  Familiarity information: REDDENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDDENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

Synonyms:

crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened

Context example:

flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lighted with red light as if with flames

Synonyms:

ablaze; inflamed; reddened

Context example:

reddened faces around the campfire

Similar:

light (characterized by or emitting light)

 Context examples 

There, Aylward, said Alleyne, with a reddened cheek, let that curb your blunt tongue.

(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)

Major staggered to his feet, but the blood spouting from his throat reddened the snow in a widening path.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There were also a clothes brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin—the latter containing dirty water which was reddened as if with blood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These properties suggest that `Oumuamua is dense, possibly rocky or with high metal content, lacks significant amounts of water or ice, and that its surface is now dark and reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays over millions of years.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

She had bright dark eyes, good teeth, and altogether an agreeable face; though her reddened and weather-beaten complexion, the consequence of her having been almost as much at sea as her husband, made her seem to have lived some years longer in the world than her real eight-and-thirty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

When little Em'ly grew more courageous, and talked (but still bashfully) across the fire to me, of our old wanderings upon the beach, to pick up shells and pebbles; and when I asked her if she recollected how I used to be devoted to her; and when we both laughed and reddened, casting these looks back on the pleasant old times, so unreal to look at now; he was silent and attentive, and observed us thoughtfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From within came wild screamings and the clash of steel, and then the two emerged once more, their swords and forearms reddened with blood, while John bore over his shoulder the senseless body of a man whose gay surcoat, adorned with the lions and towers of Castile, proclaimed him to belong to the royal house.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)