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coolen

coolen verb: to make or become cool. Also the alternative form of coolung.

Verb

coolen (third-person singular simple present coolens, present participle coolening, simple past and past participle coolened)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare) To make or become cool.
    • Other points of light of much smaller magnitude we find to possess no illuminative vibration of their own, but to be merely reflecting from their surface the light they receive from the larger orbs, and we note that these lesser lights are subsidiaries or dependents of the suns or parent bodies...1918, Fitz Gerald Broad, The Problem of Life: A Solution, page 64
    • Mrs. Allen sitting at her typewriter with a speed of popping sound as if someone in the kitchen is making a popcorn. Now the coffee has coolen[ed] down, Broneco took another swallow.1967, Blackhorse Mitchell, Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy, page 193

Also used as

coolen is also the alternative form of coolung.

Examples of coolen in a sentence

  • The girls gathered around my table, ate popcorn with chopsticks, and asked for ice cubes "to coolen" their cocoa.1996, Carolyn Kremers, Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village:
  • A ceiling fan was going lazily, filtering the coolened air throughout the spacious living room.2008, Mike Haszto, Radio Free Mickey, page 34:

Forms of coolen

Verb
third-person singular presentcoolens
present participlecoolening
past participlecoolened
pastcoolened
Noun
pluralcoolens

Origin of coolen

From cool + -en. Compare Icelandic kólna (“to cool”), Norwegian kjølne (“to cool”), Swedish kylna (“to chill, cool”).

Questions about coolen

What does coolen mean?
Coolen means to make or become cool.
How do you use coolen in a sentence?
The girls gathered around my table, ate popcorn with chopsticks, and asked for ice cubes "to coolen" their cocoa.
What part of speech is coolen?
Coolen is a verb.
What is the past tense of coolen?
The past tense of coolen is coolened.

Words near coolen in the dictionary

  1. cooled one's jets
  2. cooled out
  3. coolee
  4. coolees
  5. Cooleman
  6. coolen
  7. coolened
  8. coolening
  9. coolens
  10. cooler
  11. cooler bag

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