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  • verb Present participle of crimson.

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Examples

  • My face was crimsoning, but I couldn't stop the corners of my mouth from turning up slightly.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • His scar was crimsoning again, as it always did when Oxford was mentioned; Oriel had kicked him out, you see, no doubt for purloining the College plate or strangling the Dean, but he always claimed it was academic jealousy.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • This is what Abraham Lincoln, who urged Congress to pass the law, had to say on the subject: Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the south and their countrymen are moldering in the dust.

    Gary S. Chafetz: UBS Whistleblower Sentenced to 40-Month Prison Term Puts Chill on Whistleblowing 2009

  • Shafton, crimsoning with a new fit of rage, “the thread of thy life is spun!”

    The Monastery 2008

  • "Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation, while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South, and their countrymen moldering the dust."

    Charlie Cray: Halliburton Rolled In Money Over Drivers' Dead Bodies, Then Asked Survivors to Sign Away Their Rights to Sue for a Medal 2008

  • The red glow of the unwonted fire, crimsoning the wet sides of the cavern, seemed to attract countless blisterous and transparent shapelessnesses, which elongated themselves towards him.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Morton took the billet, and crimsoning up to the ears, between joy and surprise, read these words: “If you can serve these poor helpless people, you will oblige E. B.”

    Old Mortality 2004

  • In the midst of this mirth, the officer of the watch, glancing round the fast crimsoning horizon, paused abruptly, and shading his eyes with his hand, looked out intently to the westward.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Oh, mum, "with a sudden crimsoning of the little face," may I fetch

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • “Yes,” she answered Veslovsky, crimsoning still more.

    Anna Karenina 2003

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