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crimson

• (s) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, ruddy,
• (s) characterized by violence or bloodshed
  • writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days - Andrea Parke
  • fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing - Thomas Gray
  • convulsed with red rage - Hudson Strode
  red, violent,
• (s) (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
  reddened, red-faced, flushed, red,

Nouns

• (n) a deep and vivid red color deep red, ruby,

Verbs

• (v) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
  blush, flush, redden,

Synonyms

blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red red reddish ruby ruby-red scarlet ruddy deep red blush flush redden violent reddened red-faced flushed

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