redden
see also: Redden
Pronunciation
Redden
Proper noun
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see also: Redden
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛdn̩/
redden (reddens, present participle reddening; past and past participle reddened)
- (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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=UycBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341&dq=redden+-dutch+-german+date:1600-1799&num=50&as_brr=0 341]
- 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.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page [http://books.google.com/books?id=UycBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341&dq=redden+-dutch+-german+date:1600-1799&num=50&as_brr=0 341]
- (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.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4,
- French: rougir
- German: erröten
- Portuguese: avermelhar, vermelhar
- Russian: красне́ть
- Spanish: enrojecer
- French: faire rougir
- German: röten
- Portuguese: avermelhar, vermelhar
- Russian: красни́ть
- Spanish: enrojecer
Redden
Proper noun
- A male given name
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