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ruden

ruden verb: to make rude; make raw, simplified, or more robust; toughen.

Verb

ruden (third-person singular simple present rudens, present participle rudening, simple past and past participle rudened)

  1. (transitive) To make rude; make raw, simplified, or more robust; toughen.
    • None ever voyaged the wild sea of Life / Less warped and rudened by its stormy strife, […]1984, The Poetic Works of Charles Harpur

Proper noun capitalized: Ruden

Ruden (plural Rudens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of ruden

Verb
third-person singular presentrudens
present participlerudening
past participlerudened
pastrudened
Proper noun
pluralRudens

Origin of ruden

From rude + -en.

Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Ruden or Rüden. * Borrowed from Swedish Rudén.

Phrases with ruden

Questions about ruden

What does ruden mean?
Ruden means to make rude; make raw, simplified, or more robust; toughen.
What part of speech is ruden?
Ruden can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of ruden?
The past tense of ruden is rudened.

Words near ruden in the dictionary

  1. Rudeineh
  2. rudelier
  3. rudeling
  4. rudelings
  5. rudely
  6. ruden
  7. rudened
  8. rudeness
  9. rudenesses
  10. rudening
  11. rudenkoite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruden (page history and authors); Ruden (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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