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reddened

adjective as in florid

adjective as in painted

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I was so embarrassed my face reddened but Lee kept it right up.

I had time to see everything about her—her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold.

Her face reddened—just as her son's had when he cried on the stand last week—and she let out a sob as she shook her head.

At the long defense table surrounded by a team of six, Casey Anthony's face reddened and she silently dabbed at her nose and eyes.

But she altered her voice and began singing on such a mocking note that Frdric reddened to his very ears.

The wind had slightly reddened her pale skin: her expression was one of great animation, yet of great softness.

His complexion was so reddened and darkened by sunburn that his untanned forehead looked unnaturally white and delicate.

Then Richard held up Trenchefer, so that the reddened blade glittered in the lamplight.

And though she reddened as she made what to her was really a painful confession, Jacinth's heart felt lighter from that moment.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reddened, such as: glowing, blowzy, flush, high-colored, pink, and rubicund.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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