crimson

Adjective

• (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
    

• 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
    

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

Noun

• a deep and vivid red color

Verb

• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
  • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  red , reddened , red-faced , flushed , violent , ruby , deep red , blush , flush , redden