sleeken
sleeken verb: to make or become sleek.
Verb
sleeken (third-person singular simple present sleekens, present participle sleekening, simple past and past participle sleekened)
- To make or become sleek.
- Now I have had my gird at thee, my servant, I must tell thee that in sooth it is not all for nothing that thou hast had these months of rest; for verily thou hast grown more of a woman thereby, and hast sleekened and rounded much.1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11
sleeken meaning in Bengali
sleeken in Bengali
- মসৃণ করা, হওয়া
Forms of sleeken
| third-person singular present | sleekens |
|---|---|
| present participle | sleekening |
| past participle | sleekened |
| past | sleekened |
Origin of sleeken
From sleek + -en.
Words that rhyme with sleeken
Questions about sleeken
- What does sleeken mean?
- Sleeken means to make or become sleek.
- What is sleeken in Bengali?
- Sleeken in Bengali is মসৃণ করা, হওয়া. See Sleeken meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is sleeken?
- Sleeken is a verb.
- What is the past tense of sleeken?
- The past tense of sleeken is sleekened.
Words near sleeken in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeken (page history and authors); sleeken (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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