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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.
red'n. [from red.] To make red.

REDDEN

,
Verb.
I.
red'n.
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

Redden

See also: redden

English

Proper noun

Redden

  1. A male given name

redden

redden

See also: Redden

English

Verb

redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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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

  1. to save, rescue

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.

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Swedish

Noun

redden

  1. definite singular of redd