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haughten

haughten verb: to make or become haughty.

Verb

haughten (third-person singular simple present haughtens, present participle haughtening, simple past and past participle haughtened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become haughty.
    • Till now her innocent wrongs, endured in isolation, had hardened and, if the word be permissible, haughtened her.1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 101, page 274
    • And when, the day's work well accomplished, and the haughty, Haughtoned rival betook his weary and humbled prowess back to his haunts of New Jersey or Connecticut, the Jester, stein in hand, would sit before his birch fire and discuss the salient features of the famous game, as if the world itself...1918, The Harvard Lampoon, volumes 75-76, page 98

Forms of haughten

third-person singular presenthaughtens
present participlehaughtening
past participlehaughtened
pasthaughtened
alternative nonce-wordhaughton

Origin of haughten

From haught or haughty + -en.

Questions about haughten

What does haughten mean?
Haughten means to make or become haughty.
What part of speech is haughten?
Haughten is a verb.
What is the past tense of haughten?
The past tense of haughten is haughtened.

Words near haughten in the dictionary

  1. haughland
  2. haughlands
  3. Haughley
  4. haughs
  5. haught
  6. haughten
  7. haughtier
  8. haughtiest
  9. haughtily
  10. haughtiness
  11. haughtinesses

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