Redden definition

Redden

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WordNet

(1) Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

(2) Turn red or redder

"The sky reddened"

(3) Make red

"The setting sun reddened the sky"

WiktionaryText

To become red.
- 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.
To make red.
- 1794: William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
  
  Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.