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red

/ɹɛd/ · 3 letters · 3 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

  2. noun

    red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

  3. adjective

    characterized by violence or bloodshed;, Andrea Parke;, Thomas Gray;, Hudson Strode

    writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days

  4. noun

    a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

  5. adjective

    (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

    crimson with fury

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