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oddening

oddening is the present participle and gerund of odden.

Meaning of odden

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

Questions about oddening

What is oddening the present participle and gerund of?
Oddening is the present participle and gerund of odden.

Words near oddening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oddening (page history and authors); odden (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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