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heartens

heartens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hearten.

Meaning of hearten

Verb

hearten (third-person singular simple present heartens, present participle heartening, simple past and past participle heartened)

  1. (transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
    • hearten the crowd
    Antonyms:
    dishearten

Questions about heartens

What is heartens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Heartens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hearten.

Words near heartens in the dictionary

  1. hearteners
  2. heartenest
  3. hearteneth
  4. heartening
  5. hearteningly
  6. heartens
  7. heartes
  8. heartface
  9. heartfaces
  10. heartfelt
  11. heartfeltly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartens (page history and authors); hearten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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