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mirkening

mirkening is the present participle and gerund of mirken.

Meaning of mirken

Verb

mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, rare) To grow dark.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirken.

Questions about mirkening

What is mirkening the present participle and gerund of?
Mirkening is the present participle and gerund of mirken.

Words near mirkening in the dictionary

  1. Mirjapur
  2. mirk
  3. mirked
  4. mirken
  5. mirkened
  6. mirkening
  7. mirkens
  8. mirkest
  9. mirkier
  10. mirkiest
  11. mirkily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mirkening (page history and authors); mirken (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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