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shaden

shaden verb: to make or become shaded or shady.

Verb

shaden (third-person singular simple present shadens, present participle shadening, simple past and past participle shadened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become shaded or shady.
    • But I'd obviously put the plant in the wrong place. It shadened and dampened some delicate things in the scree; of total losses, it accounted for a just-established plant of the large-flowered Dianthus alpinus and one Erinus.1958, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, The Tranquil Gardener, page 116
    • Her white stockinged and black sandalped]^([sic]) feet moved the very picture of quiet Elegance and now and then her white Eylids drooped over the table would lift their dark lashes to the window with an expectant look though to see the shadening prospect she had often to put back the raven curls...2013, Delphi Complete Works of The Bronte Sisters

Forms of shaden

third-person singular presentshadens
present participleshadening
past participleshadened
pastshadened

Origin of shaden

From shade + -en.

Questions about shaden

What does shaden mean?
Shaden means to make or become shaded or shady.
What part of speech is shaden?
Shaden is a verb.
What is the past tense of shaden?
The past tense of shaden is shadened.

Words near shaden in the dictionary

  1. shadeism
  2. shadeless
  3. shadelessly
  4. shadelessness
  5. shadelike
  6. shaden
  7. shadened
  8. shadening
  9. shadens
  10. shader
  11. shaderless

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