crimson
1. [ adjective ] (color) having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms: red blood-red cherry-red carmine cerise cherry ruddy ruby ruby-red scarlet reddish
Related terms: chromatic
2. [ adjective ] characterized by violence or bloodshed
Synonyms: red violent
Examples:

"writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode

Related terms: bloody
3. [ noun ] (color) a deep and vivid red
Synonyms: deep_red ruby
Related terms: red rubify
4. [ adjective ] (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Synonyms: red red-faced flushed reddened aflame
Examples:

"crimson with fury" "turned red from exertion" "with puffy reddened eyes" "red-faced and violent" "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

Related terms: colored
5. [ verb ] (color) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
Synonyms: blush flush redden
Examples:

"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

Related terms: discolor bloom blushing_mushroom rouge blush
Similar spelling:   cronk
  Crooms
  crying
  cryonic
  Crangon
  cryonics
  cronyism