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densen

densen verb: to become dense or more dense.

Verb

densen (third-person singular simple present densens, present participle densening, simple past and past participle densened)

  1. (intransitive) To become dense or more dense.
    • I see a singing darkness in my unseeing eyes. Of neither water, nor earth, nor night. It quivers, densens, then explodes in black. Then it falls away in strings of rippling beads. And again it quivers, densens. Can you hear it?1992, Wiesław Myśliwski, The palace, page 109
    • Traffic densens as the morning ticks on. Trucks roar past on the nearside lane, but I'm well protected by a decent width of shoulder.2004, Quentin van Marle, Boomerang Road: A Pedalling Pom's Australian Odyssey, page 45

Forms of densen

third-person singular presentdensens
present participledensening
past participledensened
pastdensened

Origin of densen

From dense + -en.

Words formed from densen

Questions about densen

What does densen mean?
Densen means to become dense or more dense.
What part of speech is densen?
Densen is a verb.
What is the past tense of densen?
The past tense of densen is densened.

Words near densen in the dictionary

  1. dense blazingstar
  2. dense blazingstars
  3. Dense Pack
  4. dense-in-itself
  5. densely
  6. densen
  7. densened
  8. denseness
  9. densenesses
  10. densening
  11. densens

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