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sightened

sightened is the simple past and past participle of sighten.

Meaning of sighten

Verb

sighten (third-person singular simple present sightens, present participle sightening, simple past and past participle sightened)

  1. (transitive, calico-printing) To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not.
    • The iron liquor should be sightened with logwood.1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts

Questions about sightened

What is sightened the simple past and past participle of?
Sightened is the simple past and past participle of sighten.

Words near sightened in the dictionary

  1. sightbites
  2. sighted
  3. sighted in
  4. sightedness
  5. sighten
  6. sightened
  7. sightening
  8. sightenings
  9. sightens
  10. sighter
  11. sighters

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