red

red: adj., noun

1 colour/color

VERBS

▪ glow

▪ The coals glowed red in the dying fire.

▪ go, turn

▪ The traffic light turned red.

▪ paint sth

ADVERB

▪ really, very

▪ completely

▪ slightly

▪ The leaves looked slightly red.

ADJECTIVE

▪ bright, brilliant, fiery, flaming, vibrant, vivid

▪ flaming red hair

▪ dark, deep, rich

▪ light, pale

▪ dull

▪ blood, brick, cherry, fire-engine, ruby

▪ her ruby red lips

PHRASES

▪ red and blotchy (= of skin or eyes), red and puffy (= of eyes)

▪ Her eyes were red and puffy, as if she'd been crying.

▪ red and swollen (= of injured part of body)

2 of the face

VERBS

▪ be, look

▪ become, flush, get, go, grow, turn

▪ Mr Gruber was growing redder and redder in the face.

ADVERB

▪ very

▪ quite

▪ rather, slightly

ADJECTIVE

▪ bright, fiery

▪ He could feel himself going bright red.

PREPOSITION

▪ red with

▪ Ross flushed red with embarrassment.

PHRASES

▪ as red as a beet (AmE), as red as a beetroot (BrE)

▪ red in the face

▪ Charles was rapidly turning red in the face.

Red is used with these nouns: ↑alert, ↑apple, ↑bean, ↑birthmark, ↑brick, ↑bump, ↑cabbage, ↑carpet, ↑cheek, ↑cherry, ↑chilli, ↑cinder, ↑colour, ↑dye, ↑eye, ↑face, ↑fingernail, ↑flush, ↑grape, ↑hair, ↑heat, ↑ink, ↑meat, ↑mist, ↑mouth, ↑mud, ↑nose, ↑onion, ↑pepper, ↑pimple, ↑rash, ↑rice, ↑rose, ↑salmon, ↑squirrel, ↑state, ↑sun, ↑sunset, ↑tomato, ↑traffic light, ↑wine

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Red — Red, a. [Compar. {Redder} ( d?r); superl. {Reddest}.] [OE. red, reed, AS. re[ a]d, re[ o]d; akin to OS. r[=o]d, OFries. r[=a]d, D. rood, G. roht, rot, OHG. r[=o]t, Dan. & Sw. r[ o]d, Icel. rau[eth]r, rj[=o][eth]r, Goth. r[ a]uds, W. rhudd, Armor … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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