redden

red·den (red′'n)

transitive verb

to make red

intransitive verb

to become red; esp., to blush or flush

To grow red
blush, color, flush, crimson, turn red, bloody, rust; see also blush.
To make red
color, rouge, apply lipstick, tint, dye, paint, put paint on, ruddle, reddle, rubricate, flush, tint, encarmine, encarnadine.

Preposition: of

skin: The first signs of the disease are reddening of the skin followed by the erruption of spots to form a rash.
face: A distinctive symptom was the ' three o'clock flush ' - a reddening of the face experienced by many of the workers.

Object

skin: His beard, which grew in white patches over reddened skin, made him look like a dog with mange.
sky: Searchlights made effective patterns as they stabbed the reddened sky with their beams, which swept back and forth in wide arcs.
eye: With the bottom of his palm he rubbed his reddening eyes.
face: The wind is slamming the velcro of my anorak collar into my reddening face.
area: Early signs are abnormally reddened areas, which look inflamed.
stone: Morehouse mentions the finding of small stones reddened by the action of fire.

Subject

fire: Walls and floors were blackened or reddened by fire and every room was filled with fallen bricks.

Modifying Another Word

slightly: Sometimes the skin will just be slightly reddened without obvious lesions.
highly: However, pillars adopt the colors of the incident sunlight which may be highly reddened.
then: Infinite space reddens then cools silently at the heart of the rose.
not: There is no sensation at all, and the treatment area does not redden or become hot.

Preposition: by

fire: Walls and floors were blackened or reddened by fire and every room was filled with fallen bricks.

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