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shadens

shadens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shaden.

Meaning of shaden

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

Questions about shadens

What is shadens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shadens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shaden.

Words near shadens in the dictionary

  1. shadelessness
  2. shadelike
  3. shaden
  4. shadened
  5. shadening
  6. shadens
  7. shader
  8. shaderless
  9. shaders
  10. shades
  11. shades up

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