Word.ws English Dictionary

peacening

peacening is the present participle and gerund of peacen.

Meaning of peacen

Verb

peacen (third-person singular simple present peacens, present participle peacening, simple past and past participle peacened)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare) To make peaceful; calm; quieten
    • "I thought maybe de little feller mought 'a' been sont to me—jes' to me —ma'am— but all de planets p'ints de yether way, now, an' I rej'ices in his riches— so I gwine peacen my sperit again, and give 'way to de Lord's will."1903, Ruth McEnery Stuart, George Washington Jones: A Christmas Gift that Went A-begging

Questions about peacening

What is peacening the present participle and gerund of?
Peacening is the present participle and gerund of peacen.

Words near peacening in the dictionary

  1. peacen
  2. peacened
  3. peacenik
  4. peaceniki
  5. peaceniks
  6. peacening
  7. peacens
  8. peaces
  9. peaces out
  10. peacespeak
  11. peacetime

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peacening (page history and authors); peacen (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “peacening.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/peacening. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.