harkened
harkened is the simple past and past participle of harken.
Meaning of harken
Verb
harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)
- To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
- Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.2005, Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, page 48
Phrases with harkened
Questions about harkened
- What is harkened the simple past and past participle of?
- Harkened is the simple past and past participle of harken.
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