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red

noun(red)

the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

Synonyms: loss, red ink,

Examples:

The company operated in the red last year.

red

noun(red)

red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Synonyms: redness,

red

adjective(red)

characterized by violence or bloodshed

Synonyms: crimson, violent,

Examples:

Convulsed with red rage.

red

adjective(red)

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

Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet,

red

noun(red)

a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Synonyms: red river,

red

adjective(red)

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

Synonyms: crimson, flushed, red-faced, reddened,

Examples:

Turned red from exertion.
With puffy reddened eyes.
Red-faced and violent.

red

noun(red)

emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Synonyms: bolshevik, bolshie, bolshy, marxist,

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