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bulkened

bulkened is the simple past and past participle of bulken.

Meaning of bulken

Verb

bulken (third-person singular simple present bulkens, present participle bulkening, simple past and past participle bulkened)

  1. (intransitive) To put on bulk; become bulky
    • Through the gaps, moonlight bulkened into a ghastly squatting outline.2002, Ken Catran, Tomorrow the Dark, page 186

Questions about bulkened

What is bulkened the simple past and past participle of?
Bulkened is the simple past and past participle of bulken.

Words near bulkened in the dictionary

  1. bulked up
  2. Bulkeley
  3. Bulkeley and Ridley
  4. Bulkeleys
  5. bulken
  6. bulkened
  7. bulker
  8. bulkers
  9. bulkhead
  10. bulkhead line
  11. bulkhead lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulkened (page history and authors); bulken (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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