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Definition of Reddened

1. Adjective. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion. "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

2. Adjective. Lighted with red light as if with flames. "Reddened faces around the campfire"

Definition of Reddened

1. Adjective. Made red. ¹

2. Verb. (past of redden) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reddened

1. redden [v] - See also: redden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reddened

redcedar redcedars redcoat redcoats redcurrant redcurrants redd redd up reddans redded

redden reddenda reddendo reddendos reddendum reddened (current term) reddener reddeners reddenest reddeneth

reddening reddenings reddens redder redders reddest reddier reddiest redding reddingite

Literary usage of Reddened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1885)
"reddened Carbolic Acid. MUCH has already been written on this subject, ... Though Dr. Hager could not detect any iron in a small sample of reddened carbolic ..."

2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Frederick, in his turn, reddened. Pellerin pretended that he had not heard the words. "Nevertheless, it is certainly by you! For your name is written at the ..."

3. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1829)
"... they had stated that it is reddened by nitric acid. At the same time they observed, that the alkali extracted from the nux vomica presented this ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"The infusion of litmus is reddened by it; but the red colour gradually ... Bergmann has shown, that paper stained with litmus is reddened when dipped into ..."

5. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1874)
"reddened LITMUS PAPER. Preparation.—Stir blue solution of litmus with a glass rod dipped in dilute sulphuric acid, and repeat this process until the fluid ..."

6. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1904)
"The left palm is reddened, and shows many deep cracks, more particularly in places where there is much movement. On the back of the left hand and forearm ..."

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