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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
crimson
a deep and vivid red color (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
ruby, deep red
• Derivationally related forms:
rubify (for: ruby)
• Hypernyms:
red, redness
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
• Syn:
blush, flush, redden
• Derivationally related forms:
flush (for: flush), blush (for: blush), blusher (for: blush)
• Hypernyms:
discolor, discolour, colour, color
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange);
resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
• Similar to:
chromatic
• Derivationally related forms:
scarlet (for: scarlet), cherry (for: cherry), cerise (for: cerise), carmine (for: carmine), ruddiness (for: ruddy), red (for: red), redness (for: red)
2. characterized by violence or bloodshed (Freq. 5)
- "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke
- "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray
- "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
• Syn:
red, violent
• Similar to:
bloody
• Derivationally related forms:
violence (for: violent)
3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- crimson with fury
- turned red from exertion
- with puffy reddened eyes
- red-faced and violent
- flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
• Syn:
red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
• Similar to:
colored, coloured, colorful
• Derivationally related forms:
redness (for: red)
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