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palen

palen verb: to make or become pale.

Verb

palen (third-person singular simple present palens, present participle palening, simple past and past participle palened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become pale.
    • […] the brown portion gradually palened towards the postero-interior margin, with an inconspicuous paler median streak.1932, Transactions, volumes 22-23, page 279
    • Marion dumped Alice in the wheelbarrow with slices of honeybread between dock leaves on her lap, and wheeled it down the garden, past the beans, darkening as they ripened, past the peas, palening as they ripened, past the neat rows of onions and cabbages.1998, Ann Baer, Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman, page 114

Proper noun capitalized: Palen

Palen (plural Palens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of palen

Verb
third-person singular presentpalens
present participlepalening
past participlepalened
pastpalened
Proper noun
pluralPalens

Origin of palen

From pale + -en.

Questions about palen

What does palen mean?
Palen means to make or become pale.
What part of speech is palen?
Palen can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of palen?
The past tense of palen is palened.

Words near palen in the dictionary

  1. Palembangs
  2. palemouth
  3. palemouths
  4. palempore
  5. palempores
  6. palen
  7. Palena
  8. Palencia
  9. palendag
  10. palened
  11. paleness

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