reddened

past tense of redden
as in blushed
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile

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Recent Examples of reddened One of them, a shorter, bearded man with a nose reddened and swollen from years of abusing liquor, gave a low whistle. Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 Tears blurred his vision and reddened his face. Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 May 2026 Suite 600 At this new Persian restaurant, eggplant arrives reddened with tomato or mixed with whey and walnuts in two different dips. Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2026 My cheeks reddened like spring blossoms in the air. Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 The whales started roiling and a sudden gush of blood reddened the water. Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026 Musk recently embraced the phrase with a meme of eyes reddened from the intoxicating exhaustion of situation monitoring—a recreation more stimulating, the joke goes, than any chemical substance. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026 Once a sky-blue democracy is restored, may Trump’s days of infamy be ruled illegitimate and his name and legacy duly tainted by all of history, darkly blackened or cautiously reddened in the honest records that this twerp and his twisted cohorts have conspired so heinously to whitewash. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026 One officer’s face appeared to be reddened and he could be seen rubbing his eye. Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reddened
Verb
  • The actress blushed as her co-stars, Whoopi Goldberg and Quinta Brunson, showered her with some love at a Kevin special screening later that day.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • The oversize headwear shaded her face, shielding her dark brows over her taupe smoky eye, lightly blushed cheeks and the pop of pink on her lips.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • After three minutes, the robot is flushed out and ready for the next cleaning cycle.
    John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In addition to the chickens, Frank flushed his shoes down one of the toilets, Dennis and Dee kept blowing fuses with the scheme’s need for a power-sucking vacuum sealer, and the basement was choked with carbon monoxide.
    Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • As the bartender quieted whatever terrible hair-metal mixtape had been playing over the house PA, and the lights glowed red on the stage, Ryan was trying to create the illusion of a behind-the-curtain, big-stage, rock star entrance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
  • String lights glowed overhead as the San Gabriel Mountains went dark behind them.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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“Reddened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reddened. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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