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slickening

slickening is the present participle and gerund 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 slickening

What is slickening the present participle and gerund of?
Slickening is the present participle and gerund of slicken.

Words near slickening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slickening (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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