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odden

odden verb: to make or become odd (all senses).

Verb

odden (third-person singular simple present oddens, present participle oddening, simple past and past participle oddened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become odd (all senses)
    • It was that he had to talk my mind without me there to odden up his thoughts.1974, Berry Morgan, The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner, page 145
    • The light still shines, even though the vessel be oddened, he had remarked once, and Emma, laughing, had kissed his bone-thick, fever-warm brow.2013, Lilith Saintcrow, The Red Plague Affair

Forms of odden

third-person singular presentoddens
present participleoddening
past participleoddened
pastoddened

Origin of odden

From odd + -en (verbal ending).

Questions about odden

What does odden mean?
Odden means to make or become odd (all senses).
What part of speech is odden?
Odden is a verb.
What is the past tense of odden?
The past tense of odden is oddened.

Words near odden in the dictionary

  1. oddballery
  2. oddballish
  3. oddballs
  4. oddbod
  5. oddbods
  6. odden
  7. oddened
  8. oddening
  9. odder
  10. odderon
  11. odderons

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