Definition of "redden" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To become red or redder.

   • But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
   • 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.

2. (transitive) To make red or redder.