| 单词 |
reddening |
| 释义 |
▪ I. reddening, ppl. a.|ˈrɛd(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Becoming, growing, or turning red.
1701Addison To Ld. Halifax 114 The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The red'ning Orange and the swelling grain. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 517 The redning dawn reveals the hostile fields Horrid with bristly spears. 1801Southey Thalaba ii. xiii, Anon a deeper rage Inflamed her reddening eye. 1894S. Weyman Under Red Robe ii. (1897) 49 The trees stood up black against the reddening sky.
▪ II. reddening, vbl. n.
[f. redden v. + -ing1.]
The action of making or becoming red. Also attrib.
1847T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. Scotl. 116 Worms on their transference to the moss-jar still undergo the process of scouring..that of toughening, and..the further one of reddening. Ibid., The reddening matter..is a species of high-coloured earth, reduced to a powder. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. vii. 150 Impulses..run directly to the local vessels, which open up, causing reddening of the skin. 1978Pasachoff & Kutner University Astron. xxiii. 579 Traditionally, studies of reddening and extinction have been used to find the distances to stars. |
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