redden
See also: Redden
English
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)
- (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.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
- (transitive) To make red or redder.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4,
- 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.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4,
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to become red
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to make red
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛ.də(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: red‧den
- Rhymes: -ɛdən
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
Descendants
- Afrikaans: red
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: redden
- Limburgish: rèdde
Swedish
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