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dusketh

dusketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dusk.

Meaning of dusk

Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
    • I see the air benighted
      And all the dusking dales,
      And lamps in England lighted,1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
  2. (transitive) To make dusk.
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....

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Origin of dusketh

dusk + -eth

Questions about dusketh

What is dusketh the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dusketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dusk.

Words near dusketh in the dictionary

  1. duskened
  2. duskening
  3. duskens
  4. dusker
  5. duskest
  6. dusketh
  7. duskhawk
  8. duskhawker
  9. duskhawkers
  10. duskhawks
  11. duskier

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