redden

Definition

To become red or redder.

Etymology

From red + -en.

Example Sentences

• "But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over."
• "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."

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