redden
verb (used with object)
to make or cause to become red.
is reddening
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present progressiveof redden (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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He explained the scaring on his left cheek that is reddening is from medication he’s taking to treat precancerous symptoms.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
He will not be back tonight, for the sky is reddening in the east, and the dawn is close.
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
"Will it be more comprehensible, Sir Leicester, if I say," the ironmaster is reddening a little, "that I do not regard the village school as teaching everything desirable to be known by my son's wife?"
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
"But the sky above the mountain is reddening and the glow of Vesuvius will give me work for to-night."
From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob
Morn's mystic rose is reddening on the hills, Dawn's irised nautilus makes glad the sea; There is a lyre of flame that throbs and fills Far heaven and earth with hope's wild ecstasy.—
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
