crimson

1. (intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.Examples: "Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned."; "1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662, Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower? Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,"; "Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss."intransitive

2. (transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.Examples: "Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe."; "Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […]”"; "[…] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]"transitive