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dizened

dizened is the simple past and past participle of dizen.

Meaning of dizen

Verb

dizen (third-person singular simple present dizens, present participle dizening, simple past and past participle dizened)

  1. (transitive) To dress with flax for spinning.
  2. (transitive) To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
    • Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Retaliation”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, published 1906
  3. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
    • I tell you, these Englishwomen have either no life at all in them, or they're nothing but animal life. 'Gad, how they dizen themselves! They've no other use for their fingers. The wealth of this country's frightful!'1871, George Meredith, chapter XXXIX, in The Adventures of Harry Richmond

Questions about dizened

What is dizened the simple past and past participle of?
Dizened is the simple past and past participle of dizen.

Words near dizened in the dictionary

  1. dizdar
  2. dizdars
  3. dize
  4. dized
  5. dizen
  6. dizened
  7. dizening
  8. dizens
  9. dizes
  10. dizi
  11. dizinc

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