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crudening

crudening is the present participle and gerund of cruden.

Meaning of cruden

Verb

cruden (third-person singular simple present crudens, present participle crudening, simple past and past participle crudened)

  1. (transitive) To make crude
    • We saw how the interconnectedness of primitive impulse and cultural splendour was less forcefully, indeed almost obscurely, expressed through a scholarly excursus which could hardly compete in impact with the 'magnificent blond beast lustfully prowling after booty and victory'; and we saw how the...1978, Malcolm Pasley, Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought : a Collection of Essays, page 175

Noun

crudening (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of making crude

Origin of crudening

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From cruden + -ing.

Questions about crudening

What does crudening mean?
Crudening means the act or process of making crude.
What is crudening the present participle and gerund of?
Crudening is the present participle and gerund of cruden.
What part of speech is crudening?
Crudening is a noun.

Words near crudening in the dictionary

  1. cruden
  2. Cruden Bay
  3. crudened
  4. crudeness
  5. crudenesses
  6. crudening
  7. crudens
  8. cruder
  9. crudes
  10. crudesome
  11. crudest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crudening (page history and authors); cruden (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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