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redden en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹɛdn̩/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós Proto-Germanic *raudaz Proto-West Germanic *raud Old English rēad Middle English red English red English -en English redden From red + -en.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become red or redder.
   • 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.
   • Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood. 1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
   • But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over. 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
2. (transitive) To make red or redder.
   • God redden your pale blood! 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, act I, scene 4:
   • […] 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. 1942, Wallace Stevens, “Country Words”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Knopf, published 1971, page 207:
   • Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele, Crown your hair with ivy Turn your fingers green with bryony Redden your walls with berries. 1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, published 1974, page 19:

Forms

Deriveds

outredden · reddener · reddeningly · unredden · deredden

Relateds

red

Translations (86)

fi punehtua (to become red) · hu vörösít (to make red) · pl sczerwienieć (to become red) · mh būrōrōk (to make red) · sv rodna (to become red) · mi whakawaikura (to make red) · ca envermellir (to make red) · he אָדַם (to become red) · hy կարմրացնել (to make red) · rup arushescu (to become red) · hy կարմրանալ (to become red) · ar اِحْمَرَّ (to become red) · hu vörösödik (to become red) · ro roși (to become red) · el κοκκινίζω (to become red) · cs červenat (to become red) · sq skuq (to become red) · uk червоні́ти (to become red) · eo ruĝigi (to make red) · io redeskar (to become red) · nl rood worden (to become red) · bg почервенявам (to become red) · fi punastua (to become red) · mi pāhanahana (to make red) · pt vermelhar (to become red) · am ቀላ (to become red) · es enrojecer (to make red) · aii ܣܵܡܹܩ (to make red) · la rubeo (to become red) · te ఎర్రబడు (to become red) · ko 붉어지다 (to become red) · tr kızarmak (to become red) · cs rdít (to become red) · grc ἐρυθραίνω (to make red) · mi whero (to become red) · hu pirosodik (to become red) · hu pirosít (to make red) · pl czerwienieć (to become red) · as ৰঙোৱা (to make red) · uk червони́ти (to make red) · fi punertua (to become red) · pl czerwienić się (to become red) · pt avermelhar (to become red) · unm màxkënëmën (to make red) · non rjóða (to make red) · ar حَمَّرَ (to make red) · xqa قِزَرْماقْ (to become red) · aii ܣܲܡܸܩ (to become red) · la rutilō (to become red) · uz qizarmoq (to become red) · cs rudnout (to become red) · pt avermelhar (to make red) · hy կարմրել (to become red) · fr rougir (to become red) · mh kabūrōrō (to become red) · ota قیزارمق (to become red) · nl rood maken (to make red) · he הֶאֱדִים (to become red) · as ৰঙা হোৱা (to become red) · bg боядисвам червено (to make red) · es enrojecer (to become red) · fi punata (to make red) · fi punastuttaa (to make red) · uk почервоні́ти (to become red) · id memerah (to become red) · sq skuq (to make red) · de röten (to make red) · pl poczerwienić (to make red) · pt vermelhar (to make red) · uk почервони́ти (to make red) · ca envermellir-se (to become red) · eo ruĝiĝi (to become red) · pl poczerwienieć (to become red) · izh punettua (to become red) · izh punettia (to become red) · ru покрасне́ть (to become red) · ro roși (to make red) · bg изчервявам се (to become red) · ru красни́ть (to make red) · ru красне́ть (to become red) · la rubefaciō (to make red) · ang rēodan (to make red) · de erröten (to become red) · fr faire rougir (to make red) · pl czerwienić (to make red) · grc ἐρυθραίνω (to become red)