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opaquen

UK/əʊˈpeɪkən/US/oʊˈpeɪkən/

opaquen verb: to make or become opaque.

Verb

opaquen (third-person singular simple present opaquens, present participle opaquening, simple past and past participle opaquened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become opaque.
    • It consists of a circular disc of vulcanite, about three inches in diameter, around the margin of which there are ten pieces of opaquened glass, the opacities being graduated from No. 1, which is mere cloudiness, to perfect opacity, only admitting distinction between light and dark.1877, The Lancet, volume 2, page 448
    • The next largest demand is for delustering and opaquening in the paper industry.1976, Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science
    Synonyms:
    opacify

opaquen meaning in Bengali

opaquen in Bengali

অস্বচ্ছ করা, হওয়া

Examples of opaquen in a sentence

  • As the evolving shrift opaquens the workspace, I consider the duplicate.1997, David Ira Cleary, Old Immortality, page 189:
  • (2004) Raman and scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive x-ray techniques for the characterization of colouring and opaquening agents in Roman mosaic glass tesserae.2013, Koen H. A. Janssens, Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass:

Synonyms of opaquen

Forms of opaquen

third-person singular presentopaquens
present participleopaquening
past participleopaquened
pastopaquened

Origin of opaquen

From opaque + -en.

Words formed from opaquen

  • opaquener

Questions about opaquen

What does opaquen mean?
Opaquen means to make or become opaque.
What is opaquen in Bengali?
Opaquen in Bengali is অস্বচ্ছ করা, হওয়া. See Opaquen meaning in Bengali.
How do you use opaquen in a sentence?
As the evolving shrift opaquens the workspace, I consider the duplicate.
What part of speech is opaquen?
Opaquen is a verb.
How do you pronounce opaquen?
Opaquen is pronounced /əʊˈpeɪkən/ (UK).
What is the past tense of opaquen?
The past tense of opaquen is opaquened.

Words near opaquen in the dictionary

  1. opaque
  2. opaque box
  3. opaque boxes
  4. opaqued
  5. opaquely
  6. opaquen
  7. opaquened
  8. opaqueness
  9. opaquenesses
  10. opaquening
  11. opaquens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opaquen (page history and authors); opaquen (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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