encrimson

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   literary: to make, dye, or stain something crimson or deep red

   The last light began to encrimson the clouds above the harbor.

Formed in English from en-, 'cause to be or cover with,' plus crimson. Encrimson is recorded from the late sixteenth century. The rarer historical spelling incrimson uses the closely related in- form of the prefix and carries the same meaning, 'to make crimson.'

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