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third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened
(intransitive) To become red or redder. quotations examples
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
Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
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.
1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32
(transitive) To make red or redder. quotations examples
God redden your pale blood!
1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, act I, scene 4
[…] If the cloud that hangsUpon the heart and round the mindCleared from the north and in that heightThe sun appeared and reddened greatBelshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rudeWith 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 ivyTurn your fingers green with bryonyRedden your walls with berries.
1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, published 1974, page 19