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bleakened

bleakened is the simple past and past participle of bleaken.

Meaning of bleaken

Verb

bleaken (third-person singular simple present bleakens, present participle bleakening, simple past and past participle bleakened)

  1. (intransitive) To become bleak
    • The imagination tends to bleaken in adult life, and rigid categories may reduce perceptual sensitivity. The sense of wonder is diminished and gratitude for experience itself may fail.1997, Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard, Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode, page 133

Questions about bleakened

What is bleakened the simple past and past participle of?
Bleakened is the simple past and past participle of bleaken.

Words near bleakened in the dictionary

  1. bleading edge
  2. Bleadon
  3. bleah
  4. bleak
  5. bleaken
  6. bleakened
  7. bleakening
  8. bleakens
  9. bleaker
  10. bleakest
  11. bleakish

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