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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)

  1. (US, figuratively, intransitive) 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

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What is harkened the simple past and past participle of?
Harkened is the simple past and past participle of harken.

Words near harkened in the dictionary

  1. harked
  2. harked back
  3. harkee
  4. harken
  5. harken back
  6. harkened
  7. harkened back
  8. harkenedst
  9. harkener
  10. harkeners
  11. harkening

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