redden

English

Etymology

From red +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdən

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, [1]

     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.

Translations

to become red

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կարմրել (hy) ‎(karmrel), կարմրանալ (hy) ‎(karmranal)
• Aromanian: arushescu
• Czech: červenat (cs), rudnout
• Dutch: rood worden
• Esperanto: ruĝiĝi
• Finnish: punertua, punehtua; punastua (of sb's face, as an emotional reaction)
• French: rougir (fr)
• German: erröten (de)
• Hungarian: vörösödik (hu), pirosodik

• Ido: redeskar (io)
• Indonesian: memerah (id)
• Korean: 붉어지다 ‎(bulgeojida)
• Portuguese: avermelhar (pt), vermelhar
• Romanian: roși (ro)
• Russian: красне́ть (ru) impf ‎(krasnétʹ), покрасне́ть (ru) pf ‎(pokrasnétʹ)
• Spanish: enrojecer (es)
• Swedish: rodna (sv)

to make red

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կարմրացնել (hy) ‎(karmracʿnel)
• Dutch: rood maken
• Esperanto: ruĝigi
• Finnish: punata; punastuttaa (cause an emotional reaction on sb's face)
• German: röten (de)
• Hungarian: vörösít (hu), pirosít (hu)

• Latin: rubefaciō
• Maori: pāhanahana, whakawaikura
• Portuguese: avermelhar (pt), vermelhar
• Romanian: roși (ro)
• Russian: красни́ть ‎(krasnítʹ)
• Spanish: enrojecer (es)

Related terms

• red

Derived terms

• reddener

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Pronunciation

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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.

Derived terms

• redding

Anagrams

• dender, derden, redend

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Noun

redden

1. definite singular of redd