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sparsen

sparsen verb: to make or become sparse.

Verb

sparsen (third-person singular simple present sparsens, present participle sparsening, simple past and past participle sparsened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become sparse.
    • Again and again, as Beckett's narrative structures tighten and sparsen after the word frenzy of Malone Dies and The Unnamable, we see this effect re-emerging as the underlying condition of narrative voice.2015, Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel, page 36

Forms of sparsen

third-person singular presentsparsens
present participlesparsening
past participlesparsened
pastsparsened

Origin of sparsen

From sparse + -en.

Questions about sparsen

What does sparsen mean?
Sparsen means to make or become sparse.
What part of speech is sparsen?
Sparsen is a verb.
What is the past tense of sparsen?
The past tense of sparsen is sparsened.

Words near sparsen in the dictionary

  1. sparse table
  2. sparse tables
  3. sparsed
  4. sparsedly
  5. sparsely
  6. sparsen
  7. sparsened
  8. sparseness
  9. sparsenesses
  10. sparsening
  11. sparsens

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