Definitions
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- adj. Made red.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of redden.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. lighted with red light as if with flames
- adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was panic in his big blue eyes, and his face reddened from the exertion as he struggled.
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Withal there were many warriors amongst the throng, and most of these bore a token on their sleeves, to wit, a sword reddened with blood.
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The quantity of alkaline matter diminished in every operation; and in the last process, though the battery had been kept in great activity for three days, the fluid possessed, in a very slight degree, only the power of acting on paper tinged with turmeric; but its alkaline property was very sensible to litmus paper slightly reddened, which is a much more delicate test; and after evaporation and the process by carbonate of ammonia, a barely perceptible quantity of fixed alkali was still left.
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Salvator's [188] return, it has "reddened" more than ominously.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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I imagined my hands around his neck, lifting him off the floor, saw my fingers squeeze until his face reddened and his head exploded.
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One by one, the faces of the women around me reddened and crumpled and collapsed.
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Robertson's face reddened, and responded, "Well, we WERE engaged!"
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His face reddened and he cleared his phlegm-happy throat.
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The window before him admitted eerie shafts of twilight, and the trees beyond stood out black against the reddened sky.
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Show face reddened. on March 16, 2009 at 7: 10 pm | Reply Von Spreuth
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