redden
See also: Redden
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdn̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - 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, published 1971, page 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,
Conjugation
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Translations
to become red
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to make red
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛ.də(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: red‧den
- Rhymes: -ɛdən
Inflection
Inflection of redden (weak) | ||||
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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
Maltese
Root |
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r-d-n |
5 terms |
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛd.dɛn/
- Rhymes: -ɛddɛn
Conjugation
Conjugation of redden | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | reddint | reddint | redden | reddinna | reddintu | reddnu | |
f | reddnet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nredden | tredden | jredden | nreddnu | treddnu | jreddnu | |
f | tredden | |||||||
imperative | redden | reddnu |
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: redden
- Limburgish: rèdde
Further reading
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “redden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛdən/
Verb
redden
Conjugation
Conjugation of redden (weak in -de)
infinitive | (to) redden, redde | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | redde | redde | |
2nd-person singular | reddest | reddest | |
3rd-person singular | reddeth | redde | |
subjunctive singular | redde | ||
imperative singular | — | ||
plural1 | redden, redde | redden, redde | |
imperative plural | reddeth, redde | — | |
participles | reddynge, reddende | red, yred |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Related terms
References
- “redden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Swedish
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