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streaken

streaken verb: to mark or become marked with streaks.

Verb

streaken (third-person singular simple present streakens, present participle streakening, simple past and past participle streakened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To mark or become marked with streaks.
    • Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert.2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123

Forms of streaken

third-person singular presentstreakens
present participlestreakening
past participlestreakened
paststreakened

Origin of streaken

From streak + -en.

Questions about streaken

What does streaken mean?
Streaken means to mark or become marked with streaks.
What part of speech is streaken?
Streaken is a verb.
What is the past tense of streaken?
The past tense of streaken is streakened.

Words near streaken in the dictionary

  1. streaked weever
  2. streaked wren-babbler
  3. streaked wren-babblers
  4. streakedly
  5. streakedness
  6. streaken
  7. streakened
  8. streakens
  9. streaker
  10. streakers
  11. streakes

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