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safens

safens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of safen.

Meaning of safen

Verb

safen (third-person singular simple present safens, present participle safening, simple past and past participle safened)

  1. (transitive) To make safe.
    • She used to safen me when I was smaller, when I came here first. Her long, dark hair was my hiding place from the outside world.2002, Malachy Doyle, Georgie, page 12
  2. (transitive) To protect a crop from injury from a herbicide by adding a safener.

Questions about safens

What is safens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Safens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of safen.

Words near safens in the dictionary

  1. safener
  2. safeners
  3. safeness
  4. safenesses
  5. safening
  6. safens
  7. safer
  8. safer sex
  9. safer space
  10. safer-sex
  11. saferoom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safens (page history and authors); safen (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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