redden

      English

      Etymology

      red +‎ -en

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)

      1. (intransitive) 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.
      2. (transitive) To make red.
        • 1794: William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
          Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.

      Translations

      to become red
      to make red

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      Dutch

      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).

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      redden

      1. to save, rescue

      Conjugation

      Conjugation of redden (weak)
      infinitive redden
      present tense past tense
      1st person singular red redde
      2nd person singular 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 (hebben) gered
      1)Archaic.

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      Swedish

      Noun

      redden

      1. definite singular of redd
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