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spiriten

spiriten verb: to endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.

Verb

spiriten (third-person singular simple present spiritens, present participle spiritening, simple past and past participle spiritened)

  1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
    • Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.2011, Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire 4

Forms of spiriten

third-person singular presentspiritens
present participlespiritening
past participlespiritened
pastspiritened

Origin of spiriten

From spirit + -en.

Questions about spiriten

What does spiriten mean?
Spiriten means to endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
What part of speech is spiriten?
Spiriten is a verb.
What is the past tense of spiriten?
The past tense of spiriten is spiritened.

Words near spiriten in the dictionary

  1. spirited
  2. spirited away
  3. spirited off
  4. spiritedly
  5. spiritedness
  6. spiriten
  7. spiritened
  8. spiritening
  9. spiritens
  10. spiriter
  11. spiriters

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