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CRIMSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep and vivid red color
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("crimson" is a kind of...):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Derivation:
crimson (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)
crimson (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by violence or bloodshed
Example:
convulsed with red rage
Synonyms:
crimson; red; violent
Classified under:
Similar:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
crimson (a deep and vivid red color)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Example:
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Synonyms:
crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they crimson ... he / she / it crimsons
Past simple: crimsoned
Past participle: crimsoned
-ing form: crimsoning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
Example:
The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "crimson" is one way to...):
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
crimson (a deep and vivid red color)
Context examples:
Von Bork flushed crimson.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our effects were scattered in wild confusion over the ground; my comrades had disappeared, and close to the smouldering ashes of our fire the grass was stained crimson with a hideous pool of blood.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Dr. Leslie Armstrong sprang up from behind his desk, and his dark face was crimson with fury.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It was crimson,” said he, with a shudder—“crimson with black cracks, and from every crack—but I will give you dreams, sister Mary.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno had covered another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometers), and was passing directly above the coiling, crimson cloud tops of the Great Red Spot.
(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The black man, with the woman's crimson scarf tied round his swarthy head, stood forward in the centre of the path, with a long dull-colored knife in his hand, while the other, waving a ragged cudgel, cursed at Alleyne and dared him to come on.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Marianne herself had seen less of his Mama the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
