0 If something reddens, it becomes or is made more red than it was: --
His face reddened with embarrassment.
[ I ] His face reddened with embarrassment.
In this way a carbon star is formed, very cool and strongly reddened stars showing strong carbon lines in their spectra.
The lustral waters drew their purifying powers from being both fresh and reddened by the birds blood.
Saliva may then redden and infect the skin.
The web is now woven and the battlefield reddened.
The injured party suffered skin reddening and physical pain.
Symptoms of herpetic whitlow include swelling, reddening and tenderness of the skin of infected finger.
The skin on their faces is chapped and toughened due to the freezing temperatures, and their cheeks are always reddened.
It is bluish-purple when young before reddening to a reddish-purple and eventually fading to a more purplish-grey colour.
