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redden

See also: Redden and -redden

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós
Proto-Germanic *raudaz
Proto-West Germanic *raud
Old English rēad
Middle English red
English red
English -en
English redden

    From red + -en.

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    redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)

    1. (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.
    2. (transitive) To make red or redder.
      • 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket‎[1], 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, published 1974, page 19:
        Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele,
        Crown your hair with ivy
        Turn your fingers green with bryony
        Redden your walls with berries.

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    Conjugation of redden
    infinitive (to) redden
    present tense past tense
    1st-person singular redden reddened
    2nd-person singular
    3rd-person singular reddens
    plural redden
    subjunctive redden reddened
    imperative redden —
    participles reddening reddened

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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną. Equivalent to rad (“quick”) +‎ -en (“deadjectival”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.

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    redden

    1. (transitive) to save, rescue
      Hij wist zich ternauwernood uit het brandende wrak te redden.
      He barely managed to save himself from the burning wreck.
    2. (reflexive) to manage, cope, be fine
      Maak je geen zorgen, ik red me wel.
      Don’t worry, I’ll manage (literally “... I save me well”).
      Redden jullie je wel of heb je hulp nodig?
      Will you guys be fine or do you need help?
      (literally, “Do you save yourselves well or do you need help?”)

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    Conjugation of redden (weak)
    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, red2 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. 2) In case of inversion.

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    • Afrikaans: red
    • Negerhollands: red

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    Maltese

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    Root
    r-d-n
    5 terms

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      Inherited from Arabic رَدَّنَ (raddana).

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      redden (imperfect jredden, past participle mredden)

      1. to spin cotton on a spindle

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      Conjugation of redden (Form II, sound)
      positive forms
      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
      negative forms
      singular plural
      1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
      perfect m reddintx reddintx reddinx reddinniex reddintux reddnux
      f reddnitx
      imperfect m nreddinx treddinx jreddinx nreddnux treddnux jreddnux
      f treddinx
      imperative treddinx treddnux

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      From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

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      redden

      1. to save, to rescue

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      Middle English

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      Inherited from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

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      redden

      1. To save or rescue; to remove from penury or captivity.
        Synonyms: aredden, saven
        • Floris and Blauncheflur
          Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde.
          With that he saved the children from death.
      2. To release from injury or trouble.

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      Conjugation of redden (weak in -de)
      infinitive (to) redden, redde
      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

      1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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      Noun

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      redden

      1. definite singular of redd
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