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smokening

smokening is the present participle and gerund of smoken.

Meaning of smoken

Verb

smoken (third-person singular simple present smokens, present participle smokening, simple past and past participle smokened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become smoked or smoky.
    • She chewed on a knuckle bone and was silent, looking into the dying fire, till she raised her smokened face, looked at him steadily and said, 'You were born an old soul indeed, as I recall, but I'll thank you to remember that this boy, whom I have come to think of as my own bairn too, is one of the...2011, Allan Massie, Arthur the King

Questions about smokening

What is smokening the present participle and gerund of?
Smokening is the present participle and gerund of smoken.

Words near smokening in the dictionary

  1. smokelessly
  2. smokelessness
  3. smokelike
  4. smoken
  5. smokened
  6. smokening
  7. smokens
  8. smokeout
  9. smokeouts
  10. smokepipe
  11. smokepipes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smokening (page history and authors); smoken (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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