noun
a deep and vivid red color
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verb
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
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- The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
adjective
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange)
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- resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
adjective
characterized by violence or bloodshed
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- writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke
- fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray
- convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
adjective
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
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- crimson with fury
- turned red from exertion
- with puffy reddened eyes
- red-faced and violent
- flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment