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scarcening

scarcening is the present participle and gerund of scarcen.

Meaning of scarcen

Verb

scarcen (third-person singular simple present scarcens, present participle scarcening, simple past and past participle scarcened)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) to become scarce
  2. (dialectal, transitive) to make scarce, meager, or lean
    • "Cap'n Ben says that the steamboats and launches are beginning to scarcen the mackerel and that they are not so plentiful this year as usual."1909, Amy Ella Blanchard, Wit's End, page 233

Questions about scarcening

What is scarcening the present participle and gerund of?
Scarcening is the present participle and gerund of scarcen.

Words near scarcening in the dictionary

  1. scarcement
  2. scarcements
  3. scarcen
  4. scarcened
  5. scarceness
  6. scarcening
  7. scarcens
  8. scarcer
  9. scarcest
  10. scarcities
  11. scarcity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scarcening (page history and authors); scarcen (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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