redden

See also: Redden

English

Etymology

From red +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdn̩/
• Rhymes: -ɛdən
• Hyphenation: red‧den

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.

Derived terms

• reddener

Related terms

• red

Translations

to become red

• Arabic: اِحْمَرَّ‎ (iḥmarra)
• Armenian: կարմրել (hy) (karmrel), կարմրանալ (hy) (karmranal)
• Aromanian: arushescu
• Assamese: ৰঙা হোৱা (roṅa hüa)
• Catalan: envermellir-se
• Czech: červenat (cs), rudnout
• Dutch: rood worden
• Esperanto: ruĝiĝi
• Finnish: punertua, punehtua; punastua (fi) (of sb's face, as an emotional reaction)
• French: rougir (fr)
• German: erröten (de)
• Hungarian: vörösödik (hu), pirosodik
• Ido: redeskar (io)
• Indonesian: memerah (id)

• Karakhanid: قِزَرْماقْ‎ (qïzarmāq)
• Korean: 붉어지다 (bulgeojida)
• Maori: whero (mi)
• Ottoman Turkish: قیزارمق‎ (qïzarmaq)
• Polish: czerwienieć (pl) impf, poczerwienieć (pl) pf, sczerwienieć pf
• Portuguese: avermelhar (pt), vermelhar
• Romanian: roși (ro)
• Russian: красне́ть (ru) impf (krasnétʹ), покрасне́ть (ru) pf (pokrasnétʹ)
• Spanish: enrojecer (es)
• Swedish: rodna (sv)
• Telugu: ఎర్రబడు (errabaḍu)
• Turkish: kızarmak (tr)

to make red

• Arabic: حَمَّرَ‎ (ḥammara)
• Armenian: կարմրացնել (hy) (karmracʿnel)
• Assamese: ৰঙোৱা (roṅüa)
• Catalan: envermellir (ca)
• Dutch: rood maken
• Esperanto: ruĝigi
• Finnish: punata; punastuttaa (cause an emotional reaction on sb's face)
• French: faire rougir
• German: röten (de)

• Hungarian: vörösít (hu), pirosít (hu)
• Latin: rubefaciō
• Maori: pāhanahana, whakawaikura
• Polish: czerwienić (pl) impf, poczerwienić pf
• Portuguese: avermelhar (pt), vermelhar
• Romanian: roși (ro)
• Russian: красни́ть (krasnítʹ)
• Spanish: enrojecer (es)

Anagrams

• derned, red Ned, rended

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.də(n)/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: red‧den
• Rhymes: -ɛdən

Verb

redden

1. (transitive) to save, rescue

Inflection

Inflection of redden (weak)
infinitive	redden
past singular	redde
past participle	gered
infinitive	redden
gerund	redden n
	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

• redder
• redding
• redmiddel
• het redden
• zich redden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: red

Anagrams

• dender, derden, redend

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

Verb

redden

1. to save, to rescue

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: redden
• Limburgish: rèdde

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “redden (I)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną

Verb

redden

1. to save, rescue, deliver
   • Floris and Blauncheflur

     Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde.

     With that he saved the children from death.

   • Ancrene Riwle

     Whi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle?

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Swedish

Noun

redden

1. definite singular of redd