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slickened

slickened is the simple past and past participle of slicken.

Meaning of slicken

Verb

slicken (third-person singular simple present slickens, present participle slickening, simple past and past participle slickened)

  1. (transitive) To make slick.
    • Sweat dewed her skin, slickening it.2001, Nora Roberts, Hidden Star

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Questions about slickened

What is slickened the simple past and past participle of?
Slickened is the simple past and past participle of slicken.

Words near slickened in the dictionary

  1. slicked up
  2. slicked-back
  3. slickem
  4. slickems
  5. slicken
  6. slickened
  7. slickening
  8. slickens
  9. slickenside
  10. slickensided
  11. slickensides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slickened (page history and authors); slicken (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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