redden
/ˈɹɛdn̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over."
- "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."
- "God redden your pale blood!"
- "[…] 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."
- "Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele, Crown your hair with ivy Turn your fingers green with bryony Redden your walls with berries."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós Proto-Germanic *raudaz Proto-West Germanic *raud Old English rēad Middle English red English red English -en English redden From red + -en.
Usage
Inflected Forms
reddens (present, singular)
reddening (participle, present)
reddened (participle, past)
reddened (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
reddened (first person, past)
reddened (past, second person)
reddened (past, singular)
reddened (past, plural)
reddened (past, subjunctive)
- (imperative, past)