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bleakening

bleakening is the present participle and gerund 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 bleakening

What is bleakening the present participle and gerund of?
Bleakening is the present participle and gerund of bleaken.

Words near bleakening in the dictionary

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

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