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colden

UK/kəʊld(ə)n/

colden verb: to grow or make cold.

Verb

colden (third-person singular simple present coldens, present participle coldening, simple past and past participle coldened)

  1. (Scotland, ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes) To grow or make cold.
    • Even the snowboarding accident that he had last year that left him bedbound for 2 weeks did not seem to colden his passion for this sport.
    • The air had coldened and a light chill wind rose from the river.1899, John Buchan, Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People https://books.google.ru/books?id=6chI6yyZLrYC&pg=PA57&dq=coldened&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilmZucgK_LAhUE6CwKHVnsAts4ChDoAQg9MAU#v=onepage...

Forms of colden

third-person singular presentcoldens
present participlecoldening
past participlecoldened
pastcoldened
alternative formcolde

Origin of colden

From cold + -en. Compare Middle English colden (“to colden”), from Old English cealdian (“to colden”). More at cold.

Phrases with colden

Words that rhyme with colden

Questions about colden

What does colden mean?
Colden means to grow or make cold.
What part of speech is colden?
Colden is a verb.
How do you pronounce colden?
Colden is pronounced /kəʊld(ə)n/ (UK).
What is the past tense of colden?
The past tense of colden is coldened.

Words near colden in the dictionary

  1. coldcock
  2. coldcocked
  3. coldcocking
  4. coldcocks
  5. colde
  6. colden
  7. Colden Common
  8. coldened
  9. coldening
  10. coldens
  11. colder

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