reddened


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red·den

 (rĕd′n)
v. red·dened, red·den·ing, red·dens
v.tr.
To make red.
v.intr.
1. To become red.
2. To blush.
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Adj.1.reddened - (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
2.reddened - lighted with red light as if with flamesreddened - lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"
light - characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"
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The boy looked down quickly and reddened. Philip saw that he felt he had asked an unseemly question.
Reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican colour, in winding and tramping through them, as they had reddened them below the snow with a deeper dye, they carried him thus into the courtyard of the building where he lived.
"My words must make a deep impression on you, since you remember them so well," said Levin, and suddenly conscious that he had said just the same thing before, he reddened.
Levin opened his mouth, was about to say something, reddened, and said nothing.
All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.
I call to mind a winter landscape in Amsterdam - a flat foreground of waste land, with here and there stacks of timber, like the huts of a camp of some very miserable tribe; the long stretch of the Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, because, as the master stevedore (a gentle, pale person, with a few golden hairs on his chin and a reddened nose) informed me, their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts.
Across the desolate plain, stripped bare of all vegetation, and made hideous forever by the growth of a mighty industry, where the furnace fires reddened the sky, and only the unbroken line of ceaseless lights showed where town dwindled into village and suburbs led back again into town.
His countenance reddened with the anger of a man whose respectability is being threatened.
When this noble act of the Marquis de Pombreton was lauded before the chevalier, the good man reddened even to his right cheek.
The young man reddened. "I didn't have to wait for their cue, if that's what you mean, sir.
Sure enough, they saw the birds' skin reddened around the eyes during these encounters.
The 49-year-old attended the ophthalmology department of Singleton Hospital in Swansea with a painful, reddened eye, loss of vision and swollen eyelid.